Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that Sasha Grenier-Pokulok now goes by Sasha Pokulok?
It has a great cadence.
"SA sha PO KO luk" clap clap clapclapclap.
But "Grenier-Pokulok" has such a great uniform.
They must have told him we have a no-hyphen policy, just like no Murphy and no #13. :-P
Just wait till the Harvard (sucks) game:
Hyphen...no hyphen
Hyphen...no hyphen
as infinitum
Imagine if Sasha had Spanish blood and it was a traditional family. How would you fit Sasha Grenier Pokuluk de Arroyo on a jersey?
what kind of topic is this ????
The hyphen-discussing kind. Ooh, look. A hyphen.
Frankly, I prefer em-dashes, but I've always enjoyed the irony that one needs a hyphen to spell "em-dash."
Beeeej
[Q]billhoward Wrote:Sasha Grenier Pokuluk de Arroyo[/q]
Wouldn't that make him a married woman?
[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....
[Q]jeh25 Wrote:
Bah, n-dashes are better. Oh wait. A n-dash *is* a hyphen. arggggg....
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Oops, back to punctuation 101 for you. The en-dash is longer than a hyphen but shorter than an em-dash.
Leave this to the professionals. Or Microsoft Word.
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
Good hyphen...Bad hyphen
...
[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.
[Q]jeh25 Wrote:
[Q2]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.
[Q]billhoward Wrote:
[Q2]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.)