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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 10:03 pm Post subject: Hyphens Perish as English Marches On |
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Thousands of hyphens perish as English marches on
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The hyphen has been squeezed as informal ways of communicating, honed in text messages and emails, spread on Web sites and seep into newspapers and books.
"People are not confident about using hyphens anymore, they're not really sure what they are for," said Angus Stevenson, editor of the Shorter OED, the sixth edition of which was published this week.
Another factor in the hyphen's demise is designers' distaste for its ungainly horizontal bulk between words. |
By Simon Rabinovitch (September 21, 2007)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070921/od_nm/britain_hyphen1_dc |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 5:47 am Post subject: |
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| - rest - in - peace- |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 5:52 am Post subject: |
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PS.. does this have implications for ya-ta boy?  |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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Hyphens are old-fashioned? Pshaw, I say. Pshaw!
It's long been a hobby-horse of mine that the low-lifes on this board don't use hyphens. I've long wondered why the noble hyphen wasn't more in evidence--this article explains why: A semi-literate third-grader writes something on his home computer and everyone follows, lemming-like, right off the cliff-edge. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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| I, too, have been frustrated by this shift. And, inexplicably, I have lost many hyphens to professional editors who seem to know no better. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Hyphen's are so 90's. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Hyphen's are so 90's. |
And the correct use of apostrophes is so, what, 80's?  |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
| Hyphen's are so 90's. |
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| Hyphens are so '90s. |
Dude on 'ludes should not drive; and EFL instructors should never apply for professional editing jobs, either. |
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