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Thousands of hyphens perish as English marches on


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Thousands of hyphens perish as English marches on
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More proof that people are happy with getting dumber.

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jakeyboy69
Male, 13-17, Europe
 117 Posts
Saturday, October 10, 2009 6:33:11 AM
Exactly my thoughts Spambot3000. :D

Kpanda
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
 20 Posts
Thursday, October 1, 2009 6:21:59 AM
"I don't think it`s a matter of dumbness at all. According to OED(in the article) compound-adjectives seem to be getting more hyphens. It`s the compound-nouns that are losing their hyphens."

Taitano I agree with you completely on this point but I disagree with this.
"It`s nothing to panic about, just the shifting of symbol usage. I`m more worried about the prolification of lolspeak and l337sp34k. *shudder*"

Personally Im more worried about the spread of ebonics and "thugspeak". Atleast people who use lolspeak and 1337 know it`s a joke.


spacetiger
Female, 18-29, Southern US
 174 Posts
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 11:09:58 AM
OH NO not the hyphen! See we still need them to make the silly faces on the internet!

taitano
Male, 30-39, Western US
 204 Posts
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 10:31:34 AM
I don't think it`s a matter of dumbness at all. According to OED(in the article) compound-adjectives seem to be getting more hyphens. It`s the compound-nouns that are losing their hyphens.

It`s nothing to panic about, just the shifting of symbol usage. I`m more worried about the prolification of lolspeak and l337sp34k. *shudder*


Spambot3000
Male, 18-29, Europe
 512 Posts
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 7:00:09 AM
Did the person writing this go out of his way to use as many hyphens as possible or is it just me?

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