Posted by Davémon on 11/11/05 11:28

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.


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Davémon
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