JTR are you seriously this dumb? It will simply apply to the context of the sentance and its surrounding story.
'I went to a sea food restaurant and saw a man eating shark'
'I was deep sea diving and saw a man eating shark'
The human brain is trained to automatically decipher the correct usage and we naturally visualize what we read, unless your a fucking retard.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL no you fucking moron, you're actually wrong. Think harder and logically. It's not about what makes sense and what doesn't make sense in this world, because people write science fiction novels about fake shit all the time, therefore.......

Someone could easilly be trying to imply that while deep sea diving they saw a man under the water who was eating a shark. Maybe later on they discovered it was a mermaid from atlantis... For all you know that shit can happen in a made up fairy tale fantasy world, which authors do tend to write about. Aka lord of the rings and every single other sci-fi out there that has shit that would never happen in our human reality.

Now vice versa someone can also imply that at the sea-food market they saw a shark capable of eating a man for sale, however this man-eating shark would ofcourse be dead because it's being sold for food.

Now if I say "I saw a man eating shark while deep sea diving" ofcourse most people are going to be able to use their brain to decipher the correct usage and know what you meant to say. However what you meant to say sometimes may not be what you wrote. Sorry, that's how grammar is, and unless you use grammar properly, what you meant to imply and what you're implying aren't going to be the same.

So you're wrong buddy, I actually majored in english and I know for a fact you're wrong . You have to use grammar.

Man eating shark is a shark that can eat a man. It doesn't have to have the dash.
I already knew this, I wasn't asking what it meant because I didn't know, I was asking to provoke YOU PEOPLE to think.

Hahahahaa nice try though

So if you write a story and say "I walked into my room and saw my dog eating chicken!"

You probably meant to say that you saw your dog, eating some chicken. As a chicken that can eat a dog doesn't make sense. And sure everyone will get what you're trying to say, but you'll still get a nice X beside that phrase from your english teacher.

Wait.... you never went to college did you?

Ummm... did you graduate highschool?

Looks like your brain isnt as complex as you think it is

no that's wrong haha... you do need the comma

man eating shark and man-eating shark is the same

man, eating shark is the different one.. i learnt this in liberal arts

nah man you're wrong...assuming the words man eating shark are written down alone, you need a hyphen between man and eating for the context of the three words to refer to a shark that eats people, otherwise it clearly refers to a man eating a shark

i learnt this in english

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Prove me wrong if you can, i'm not saying im 100% sure, but i'm pretty sure. Otherwise if u can show me im wrong ill stand corrected.

man eating shark can't mean the same as man-eating shark

without the use of a hyphen, in order to have the same meaning you would have to rearrange the sentence, ie. the shark was man eating

the hyphen establishes the subject of the clause as the noun "shark" and the adjective as the compound "man-eating", whereas in the absence of a hyphen there is no longer an adjective and the clause reverts back to the standard "noun-verb" structure

therefore:

man-eating shark: man-eating = adjective, shark = subject
man eating shark: man = subject, eating = verb, shark = direct objective of the verb "eating"

lol fuckin professor

Nah man im pretty sure that's not true once you use an exclamation mark...

"Dog eating chicken!"
"Dog, eating chicken"

That makes them different, not the same.

For what it's worth I came into this thread expecting to see the Bizarre Foods guy eating a shark.

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