It's "first-hand". English is stupid. Sometimes two words don't become compound. Sometimes they do become compound and they're just grafted together, like in German. And sometimes you use a hyphen. I'm really good at writing and I can't always keep this shit straight.
Hyphens tend to drop over time. When's the last time you saw someone refer to "e-mail"?
That's a different kind of use for hyphen though. The use of hyphen that I'm talking about is actually flexible, used as-needed to turn any given multiple words into a single adjective, adverb, noun, etc.
Also, never get your English punctuation (or other) patterns from JRPGs, nor from popular usage on the internet. I'm not saying literacy is lowering, but I will say that people with poor literacy use the internet more than ever, and bad patterns emerge.
It's "first-hand". English is stupid. Sometimes two words don't become compound. Sometimes they do become compound and they're just grafted together, like in German. And sometimes you use a hyphen. I'm really good at writing and I can't always keep this shit straight.
Hyphens tend to drop over time. When's the last time you saw someone refer to "e-mail"?
That's a different kind of use for hyphen though. The use of hyphen that I'm talking about is actually flexible, used as-needed to turn any given multiple words into a single adjective, adverb, noun, etc.
Also, never get your English punctuation (or other) patterns from JRPGs, nor from popular usage on the internet. I'm not saying literacy is lowering, but I will say that people with poor literacy use the internet more than ever, and bad patterns emerge.