Hyphen?
Posted by Molly
Hyphen?
Posted by: Molly (---.dyn.optonline.net)
Date: October 11, 2004 10:29AM
Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that Sasha Grenier-Pokulok now goes by Sasha Pokulok?
Re: Hyphen?
Posted by: Greg Berge (---.cust-rtr.swbell.net)
Date: October 11, 2004 11:42AM
It has a great cadence.
"SA sha PO KO luk" clap clap clapclapclap.
"SA sha PO KO luk" clap clap clapclapclap.
Re: Hyphen?
Posted by: Jordan 04 (12.42.45.---)
Date: October 11, 2004 12:36PM
But "Grenier-Pokulok" has such a great uniform.
Re: Hyphen?
Posted by: jtwcornell91 (---.loyno.edu)
Date: October 11, 2004 12:47PM
They must have told him we have a no-hyphen policy, just like no Murphy and no #13. 
Re: Hyphen?
Posted by: Jeff Hopkins '82 (---.airproducts.com)
Date: October 12, 2004 07:56AM
Just wait till the Harvard (sucks) game:
Hyphen...no hyphen
Hyphen...no hyphen
as infinitum
Hyphen...no hyphen
Hyphen...no hyphen
as infinitum
Re: Hyphen?
Posted by: billhoward (---.union01.nj.comcast.net)
Date: October 12, 2004 09:58AM
Imagine if Sasha had Spanish blood and it was a traditional family. How would you fit Sasha Grenier Pokuluk de Arroyo on a jersey?
Re: Hyphen?
Posted by: mki98 (---.resnet.cornell.edu)
Date: October 13, 2004 12:54AM
what kind of topic is this ????
Re: Hyphen?
Posted by: CowbellGuy (Moderator)
Date: October 13, 2004 01:32AM
The hyphen-discussing kind. Ooh, look. A hyphen.
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Re: Hyphen?
Posted by: Beeeej (---.nycmny83.dynamic.covad.net)
Date: October 13, 2004 06:03AM
Frankly, I prefer em-dashes, but I've always enjoyed the irony that one needs a hyphen to spell "em-dash."
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Re: Hyphen?
Posted by: jtwcornell91 (---.no.no.cox.net)
Date: October 13, 2004 07:45AM
[Q]billhoward Wrote:Sasha Grenier Pokuluk de Arroyo[/q]
Wouldn't that make him a married woman?
Wouldn't that make him a married woman?
Re: Hyphen?
Posted by: jeh25 (---.epsy.uconn.edu)
Date: October 13, 2004 08:32AM
[Q]Beeeej Wrote:
Frankly, I prefer em-dashes, but I've always enjoyed the irony that one needs a hyphen to spell "em-dash."
Beeeej[/q]
Bah, n-dashes are better. Oh wait. A n-dash *is* a hyphen. arggggg....
Frankly, I prefer em-dashes, but I've always enjoyed the irony that one needs a hyphen to spell "em-dash."
Beeeej[/q]
Bah, n-dashes are better. Oh wait. A n-dash *is* a hyphen. arggggg....
Re: Hyphen?
Posted by: Anne 85 (---.wholesystems.com)
Date: October 13, 2004 07:56PM
[Q]jeh25 Wrote:
Bah, n-dashes are better. Oh wait. A n-dash *is* a hyphen. arggggg....
[/q]
Oops, back to punctuation 101 for you. The en-dash is longer than a hyphen but shorter than an em-dash.
Bah, n-dashes are better. Oh wait. A n-dash *is* a hyphen. arggggg....
[/q]
Oops, back to punctuation 101 for you. The en-dash is longer than a hyphen but shorter than an em-dash.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/13/2004 07:56PM by Anne 85.
Re: Hyphen?
Posted by: billhoward (---.ziffdavis.com)
Date: October 15, 2004 12:54PM
Leave this to the professionals. Or Microsoft Word.
Re: Hyphen?
Posted by: David Harding (---.client.comcast.net)
Date: October 15, 2004 11:47PM
Good hyphen...Bad hyphen
Good hyphen...Bad hyphen
Good hyphen...Bad hyphen
Good hyphen...Bad hyphen
...
Good hyphen...Bad hyphen
Good hyphen...Bad hyphen
Good hyphen...Bad hyphen
...
Re: Hyphen?
Posted by: jeh25 (---.ri.ri.cox.net)
Date: October 16, 2004 12:11AM
[Q]billhoward Wrote:
Leave this to the professionals. Or Microsoft Word. [/q]
Baah. Word can't even get the right the number of spaces after a period.
Leave this to the professionals. Or Microsoft Word. [/q]
Baah. Word can't even get the right the number of spaces after a period.
Re: Hyphen?
Posted by: billhoward (---.union01.nj.comcast.net)
Date: October 16, 2004 05:47AM
[Q]jeh25 Wrote:
billhoward Wrote:
Leave this to the professionals. Or Microsoft Word. [/Q]
Baah. Word can't even get the right the number of spaces after a period. [/q]
What's right depends on the usage. Spacing after a period, that Word can get "right" because for typography and typesetting the correct number of spaces is one. That is the considered opinion of cunning linguists and typographers. In the olden days of fixed-pitch typewriters it was custom to have two spaces. Every little bit helped when you were trying to stretch a 2-1/2 page essay into the required three pages.
If one persists in wanting two spaces after a period in a proportional-space-font document, you can make that happen by turning off auto-correct.
What Word gets most horribly wrong is many of the automatic open and close quotes. Every time you see a billboard or ad or just a letter with the wrong single quote in front of Class of '99, that most likely would be Word at your service.
Re: Hyphen?
Posted by: jtwcornell91 (---.no.no.cox.net)
Date: October 16, 2004 02:47PM
[Q]billhoward Wrote:
jeh25 Wrote:
Baah. Word can't even get the right the number of spaces after a period. [/Q]
What's right depends on the usage. Spacing after a period, that Word can get "right" because for typography and typesetting the correct number of spaces is one. That is the considered opinion of cunning linguists and typographers. In the olden days of fixed-pitch typewriters it was custom to have two spaces. Every little bit helped when you were trying to stretch a 2-1/2 page essay into the required three pages.[/q]
I thought the standard was a space and a half. That's what TeX does unless you specifically tell it to use a single space. (Which is why I have to type my name as John T.~Whelan in TeX documents.)
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