Re: English versus German

Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:14:57 -0700 (PDT): "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

On Jul 2, 3:57 pm, Ruud Harmsen <z...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 09:01:37 -0700 (PDT): "Peter T. Daniels"
<gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

Hyphenated text is an obstacle to clear writing and revising.

I agree!

I never hyphenate, except when there's a really annoying amount of
white space, then I very sparingly add an optional hyphen (html
&shy;). And always between morphologic parts, preferrably parts of a
composite word. Not just by any syllable.

There are different principles for English hyphenation. American
guides prefer to acknowledge morpheme boundaries when possible,
British are more likely to go purely by syllable.

But the _author_ should never insert hyphens into the text unless they
are part of the orthography. Hyphenation is the province of the
typesetter.

I fully agree.
--
Ruud Harmsen, http://rudhar.com
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