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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by mattmanser on Monday December 15, 2014 @09:40AM (#8752151)
The whole thing's clearly a confusion, with the author being a nonce as he doesn't realize it's to do with line break hyphenates and Amazon customer service being nonces because they don't realize those hyphens aren't line break artefacts and they're just cut/pasting a standard response.
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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by jeremyswank on Monday December 15, 2014 @09:49AM (#8752202)
i didn't think a human being could be a 'nonce', or is this some new usage i don't know about?
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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by grokys on Monday December 15, 2014 @09:55AM (#8752236)
From wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonce_%28slang%29

>> In the United Kingdom, nonce is a slang word for a sex offender or child sexual abuser.

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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by mattmanser on Monday December 15, 2014 @12:38PM (#8753156)
Nonce means mild idiot in my social circles. I wasn't implying they were a social offender. I wasn't even aware of its implications. Learn something every day.

I'd delete the comment but HN has got ridiculously militant about that now and I can't.

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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by DaveLond on Monday December 15, 2014 @09:59AM (#8752257)
In colloquial UK usage it means 'paedophile', and is generally considered offensive.
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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by pluma on Monday December 15, 2014 @11:46AM (#8752861)
Unless they're really making claims about the person's sexuality, I'd guess the intended word was dunce, or something similar?
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