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punctuation and adjective order in `directed, labeled, graph data model` #144

Open TallTed opened 9 months ago

TallTed commented 9 months ago

https://github.com/w3c/sparql-query/blob/93a429fa51bbccfd72f7912dc34514ea1653519b/spec/index.html#L355

What is the correct punctuation?

  1. directed labeled graph data model
  2. directed, labeled graph data model
  3. directed, labeled, graph data model
  4. something else?

I'm currently leaning toward (3), above.

Google is useless on this question, so far as I can tell. It considers all punctuation and whitespace to be noise characters.

A secondary question is whether the order of adjectives ever changes — might anyone ever say that RDF is a labeled, directed, graph data model (apparently, yes, but not often) instead of a directed, labeled, graph data model -- and would these different orders actually mean different things (apparently, no)?

niklasl commented 9 months ago

It seems (1) is strictly OK but perhaps less friendly. It appeared more common (44 vs. 18 hits) on the first google result for "directed labeled graph" (in quotes, just now, for my personalized results...).

Got some advice, e.g. this succinct page on usu.edu, which seems to favor (2), as "graph" is not an adjective in the compound noun?

In practise, Ivan's use of "directed, labelled graph" settles it for me. :wink:

(I hope that the adjective order doesn't matter; but consistently using "directed[,] labelled" feels appropriate to me.)