Tuesday, January 23, 2018

grammaticality - Correct use of hyphen to prefix multiple words with one

I wrote:




An open -source and -society loving person





and had this corrected by a native English speaker to




An open-source-and-society loving person




Which to me changes the meaning of the phrase. The first one is meant to be short-hand for prefixing both "source" and "society" with "open", while the second one does not seem to connect "society" with "open".



Is either of the forms more correct than the other? Should it be written differently all together?

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