[stylist] What am I saying?

[Eve Sanchez]

I appreciate all of your answers. It is funny how people interpret
things differently or with such imagination. A wooden table? A
visiting nun? hahaha   Donna, you suggested it meant the opposite of
what everyone else had said. I think you had the same idea though and
just made a Freudian slip of sorts. You might want to relook to get it
straight for yourself. Thanks all. I hate punctuation. Eve

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Donna Hill <penatwork at epix.net> wrote:
> Eve,
> Chris is right; since there is no comma, it is someone announcing a guest to
> a person they are calling "sister." Since you didn't capitalize "sister," it
> can't be a nun. But, the term "guest sister" is so unfamiliar to me that the
> sentence seems awkward. If you mean it in the sense that we call someone a
> "guest speaker," I think I'd want to see a hyphen in there. A hyphen would
> make a compound noun out of it and remove any confusion. We don't use the
> hyphen in "guest speaker," but the term is commonly understood. "Guest
> sister" isn't, hence the hyphen. I know some won't like "guest-sister," but
> there is one compound noun that has retained its hyphen, despite the fact
> that people universally understand what it means -- ice-cream.
> Donna
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Chris Kuell
> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 11:41 AM
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>
> Eve,
>
> Because there is no punctuation, the sentence means that we have a 'guest
> sister', which can be considered an object (sister) with a modifier (guest),
> although I don't really know what the term means. I picture the head nun at
> a nunnery telling the other nuns, "We have a guest sister," meaning, a guest
> who is also a sister. Likewise, it could be at a meeting of African American
> women who speak that way. But, the sentence can only be interpreted this way
> due to the lack of punctuation. It's exactly like saying 'We have a wooden
> table', or, 'We have a blue thunderbird'.
>
> chris
>
>
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