Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation

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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