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Re:Tagging Along with Italy’s Unexploded Bomb–Hunters by rdtennent on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @04:02PM (#31828468)
The title suggests that it's the bomb-hunters that are unexploded. The title should refer to unexploded-bomb hunters; that is, the unexploded refers to bombs, not hunters.
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Re:Tagging Along with Italy’s Unexploded Bomb–Hunters by globalise83 on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @04:32PM (#31828784)
The bomb-hunters that the author tags along with are, so far, unexploded. Both meanings work nicely in this context.
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Re:Tagging Along with Italy’s Unexploded Bomb–Hunters by smegsicle on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @04:10PM (#31828558)
the use of an en-dash rather than a regular hyphen implies that these unexploded hunters are in particular looking for unexploded bombs

see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En-dash#Attributive_compounds

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Re:Tagging Along with Italy’s Unexploded Bomb–Hunters by goatcode on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @05:40PM (#31829415)
Bless you for being a rare person who understands the semantics of such things. For too long passenger carrying airplanes has struggled under such a weight.
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Re:Tagging Along with Italy’s Unexploded Bomb–Hunters by rtchau on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @08:00PM (#31830523)
I came here to say this. I'll make do by seconding this motion.

I suppose tagging along with an exploded bomb-hunter is generally only applicable in the past tense.

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Re:Tagging Along with Italy’s Unexploded Bomb–Hunters by Arrath on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @04:47PM (#31828935)
> The title suggests that it's the bomb-hunters that are unexploded.

They're the good bomb-hunters, then.

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Re:Tagging Along with Italy’s Unexploded Bomb–Hunters by nwiswell on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @05:10PM (#31829141)
Or just bad at the hunting part.
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Re:Tagging Along with Italy’s Unexploded Bomb–Hunters by Arrath on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @01:04PM (#31838716)
Hah, I'll give you that possibility.
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Re:Tagging Along with Italy’s Unexploded Bomb–Hunters by goatcode on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @05:39PM (#31829406)
I'd imagine tagging along with the exploded ones to be either dull or impossible.
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Re:Tagging Along with Italy’s Unexploded Bomb–Hunters by pnemonic on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @04:45PM (#31828921)
Obligatory

https://xkcd.com/37/

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