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Posted by Neredbojias on 11/11/05 12:23
With neither quill nor qualm, =?UTF-8?B?RGF2w6ltb24=?= quothed:
> Toby Inkster wrote:
> > Davémon wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Having said that, recently I've taken up using hyphenated filenames as
> >>it's suggested Google et al. recognise each individual word that way.
> >>But it seems counter-intuitive to me as the normal use of a hyphen is to
> >>literally combine things together, not separate them.
> >
> >
> > The hyphen is sometimes used to separate the syllables that would
> > otherwise be conjoined, and make pronunciation easier. e.g.
> >
> > co-ordinate
> > no-one
> > tool-like
> >
> > versus
> >
> > coordinate
> > noone
> > toollike
> >
>
> That is a rare transitional stage, mostly before the conjoined word form
> becomes more widely adopted, at least in proper English, I'm not sure
> about global dialects, which might over use the hyphen. Coordinate is
> very rarely hyphenated.
>
> It also means google etc. reads "co" and "ordinate" but not coordinate,
> so it's probably best to stay away from it on two counts.
>
> I'd like to get the words "thankyou" and "goodluck" conjoined, because
> they are always used as pairs.
Hopefully you're not a mammalogist.
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Neredbojias
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