Oh dash it
The thrice-identified moravec skittered forward on silver-spider legs.
from Olympos by Dan Simmons.
I am no grammar expert but if that sentence had to have a dash surely it should have been between "spider" and "legs" and not "silver" and "spider"? The legs are those of a spider and happen to be silver. I don't even see the need for a dash, there is no confusion to be seen as one would need for the use of a dash.
Right?
posted by Paul Watson at 3:26 PM
2 Comments:
I think the dash is used to suggest that it is the spider that is silver, not just its legs?
7:52 PM
You would think so but the rest of the paragraph shows that the only spider-like part of the "moravec" are its legs.
Having read further into the book though I have found half a dozen more mistakes. I think Simmons had this book typed out in a rush.
8:00 PM
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