Re: Problem statement

Personally I can only read this one way, both semantically and
grammatically.

I do not read it as an "independent standard for applications", and to
be grammatically correct this would surely be "application's independent
standard" or "applications' independent standard", just as a hat for
boys would be a boy's hat.

regards

David

On 03/08/2016 18:29, Steven Rowat wrote:
> On 8/3/16 2:30 AM, David Chadwick wrote:
>>> There is currently no application-independent standard for expressing
>>> and transacting self-sovereign and privacy-enhancing verifiable claims
>>> (aka: credentials, attestations) via the Web.
>>
>> I like this formulation, but there is no need to put a hyphen between
>> application and independent
> 
> Perhaps I misunderstand what meaning you're attempting to convey, but
> from what I take from the statement, the following rule about adding a
> hyphen in compound adjectives would apply:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_modifier
> 
> As they make clear, the purpose is to avoid misconstruing the meaning.
> What you're suggesting, without the hyphen is:
> 
>  There is currently no application independent standard for expressing
> and transacting self-sovereign and privacy-enhancing verifiable claims
> (aka: credentials, attestations) via the Web.
> 
> IMO, this is difficult to read because the word 'application' is read as
> a noun, and 'independent standard' is then read as a noun phrase that
> must be related to it somehow, by inserting unstated connections, of
> which several are possible. Is it "independent standard for
> applications"? Is that for one application? For several? For all? Or is
> it a "standard independent from applications"? Are those two meanings
> the same? --Not necessarily. It gets boggy.
> 
> So, to me 'application-independent standard' is more precise -- in the
> same way that 'self-sovereign and 'privacy-enhancing' are unambiguous
> because of their hyphen.
> 
> 
> Steven
> 
> 
> 
>

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