On June 4, 2015, at 11:01 PM, Leo Broukhis <leob_at_mailcom.com> wrote:
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>On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 9:25 PM, David Starner <prosfilaes_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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>Hyphens generally make multiple words into one anyway. There's not really multiple hyphens the way there's separate quotes and apostrophes.
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>Generally, but not always, just as apostrophes aren't always at a contracted word boundary. There is only one hyphen because no language (AFAIK) claims it as part of its alphabet.
But the point was that treating hyphens as parts of words is not generally a wrong thing. There is one generally consistent rule for hyphens. When apostrophes and quotes are conflated, there is no one generally acceptable rule.
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