Re: A few things.

Post #124,847 by deSitter 11/9/03 10:07:51 PM 11/9/03 10:13:37 PM Reply	Re: A few things. I disagree stylisitically with overuse of hyphens as you suggest - other than "all-important" it is fine as written. I thought AG's style was superb, and very journalistic. edit: helpful link on hyphen style: [link\|http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/archives/9505/techwhirl-9505-01189.html\|http://www.raycomm.c...l-9505-01189.html] "When in doubt, leave it out." -drl Edited by deSitter Nov. 9, 2003, 10:13:37 PM EST Expand All History
Post #124,857 by Another Scott 11/9/03 10:54:06 PM Reply	Point taken. It's a stylistic thing, but clarity is impt. Your link is appreciated, but it reminds me of the John Cleese skit in "Meaning of Life" where he's the schoolteacher telling the kids when to put their [link\|http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/python/Scripts/MeaningOfLife/m-05-ii.html\|clothes on the lower peg]... :-) I should have referred to something like [link\|http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/course/11/11.481j/www/Suggestions.html\|this ] first: 14. Hyphenation of adjectives. The general rule for using hyphens with adjectives is: two or more adjectives should be hyphenated if when they are used alone the true sense of the modification is not clear. Write-- The base-year data were obtained from an independent survey in Kenya. Do not write-- The base year data were obtained from an independent survey in Kenya. (It is not base data, nor year data, but base-year data that are being described.) If there's a chance of it being misinterpreted, hyphens should be used. I'd have to check Gryg's text again to see if I'd suggest fewer hyphens. Thanks. Cheers, Scott.
Post #124,858 by deSitter 11/9/03 10:57:16 PM Reply	Re: Point taken. It's a stylistic thing Well, in college I got taken-to-task for over-hyphenating. I think this comes from reading old material, which is loaded with hyphens (e.g. co-ordinates). -drl
Post #124,867 by Another Scott 11/9/03 11:36:10 PM Reply	I understand. This reminds me of reading articles in The New Yorker years ago. They had this thing for spelling words like cooperate with umlauts, er, [link\|http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:mbid-NEVKSUJ:www.eece.unm.edu/faculty/chaouki/papers/advice.ps+dierisis&hl=en&ie=UTF-8\|dierisis] (scroll down). It still looks weird to me, but I can see some (limited) sense in it. Cheers, Scott.
Post #124,886 by pwhysall 11/10/03 3:18:52 AM Reply	Re: Point taken. It's a stylistic thing co-ordinate and co-operate look perfectly fine to me :) Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]

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