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Forums => English & Linguistics => Topic started by: Brinestone on July 01, 2005, 11:15:36 AM

Title: Drug Drug Interactions
Post by: Brinestone on July 01, 2005, 11:15:36 AM

Drug/drug interactions, drug–drug interactions, or something else?

I hate the construction to begin with, but I'm in a position where I can't write around it. The original uses the slash, which I'm sure is wrong. But what's right?

Title: Drug Drug Interactions
Post by: Jonathon on July 01, 2005, 11:35:11 AM

I'm not sure. Chicago doesn't seem to cover stuff like this. But "drug-drug" (with a hyphen) is most common in Google search results.

Why do you need the second "drug," anyway? If it's an interaction, then there's already an implication that there's more than one.

Edit: Nevermind. I guess there are also things like drug-food interactions.

Title: Drug Drug Interactions
Post by: rivka on July 03, 2005, 10:26:45 AM

*votes for drug-drug interactions, mostly because that's what she's seen in chemical journals*

Title: Drug Drug Interactions
Post by: Annie Subjunctive on July 03, 2005, 05:06:35 PM

If someone were to make this into a computer game, I would readily give it a shot. :)