 jakeyboy69
Male, 13-17, Europe
 117 Posts
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Saturday, October 10, 2009 6:33:11 AM
Exactly my thoughts Spambot3000. :D |
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 Kpanda
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
20 Posts
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Thursday, October 01, 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. |
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 spacetiger
Female, 18-29, Southern US
174 Posts
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 11:09:59 AM
OH NO not the hyphen!  See we still need them to make the silly faces on the internet!  |
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 taitano
Male, 30-39, Western US
204 Posts
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 10:31:35 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* |
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 Spambot3000
Male, 18-29, Europe
512 Posts
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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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 agrover
Female, 30-39, Eastern US
54 Posts
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 5:51:25 AM
I've never known those words to be hyphenated any way - I doubt it has everything to do with the internet. I've never seen "ice-cream" used before that article, or "bumble-bee". |
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Clatterclaws
Male, 13-17, Eastern US
21 Posts
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 2:21:31 AM
What's alarming is all these drating ellipses popping up. |
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420foy
Male, 18-29, Western US
308 Posts
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 12:51:24 AM
"any one else think they used an abundance of hyphenated words in that article to try to make hyphens seem more important?"dude, yes. 6 in the first page! (not counting examples) is this the onion? |
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 Lionhart2
Male, 40-49, Australia
5383 Posts
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:49:42 PM
vv Dang, language changes SO FAST!! vv |
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Lionhart2
Male, 40-49, Australia
5383 Posts
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:49:09 PM
I think the only rebuilt who would have any trouble underclocking this are the fenders what diddly limburger total about underprivileged lawnmower zany. Plus joker fort mixmaster, fried fencings! So there! |
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p0l4r21
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
77 Posts
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:10:51 PM
Thank god I hated remembering if the word needed a hyphen or not this will just make my writing more fluid. |
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 yellowsquare
Female, 18-29, Midwest US
1445 Posts
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 7:39:46 PM
No no no, silly. It's not people getting dumber, it's the English language progressing in natural order! Throughout the history of English, most hyphenated words have eventually become de-hyphenated. Just the natural order of things... nothing to be alarmed about :) |
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 CaptainPat
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
2588 Posts
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 7:00:18 PM
any one else think they used an abundance of hyphenated words in that article to try to make hyphens seem more important? |
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 IkeRay
Male, 18-29, Western US
1612 Posts
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 6:49:45 PM
shunpo, exactly. the hyphen is still needed for things like that. example in the article of twenty-odd people; twenty odd people becomes a totally different phrase no longer meaning "about 20 people" but rather "20 weird people".APJ...now THAT'S inventive. how about every compound word now becomes hyphenated? |
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 apeirophobia
Female, 18-29, Midwest US
133 Posts
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 6:36:12 PM
Dumber? How exactly are we getting dumber by not using hyphens? |
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 vitaliy
Male, 13-17, Western US
1455 Posts
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 6:26:01 PM
Languages are such a beast, they continually change. I'm sure it won't be long until a person from Australia can't understand a Cajun from Louisiana. It's just the natural progression, unfortunately. |
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 turbopuppy
Male, 30-39, Western US
31 Posts
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 5:48:31 PM
thanks for that great educational post. My dsl investment is really paying off. |
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 Morrigann
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
174 Posts
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 5:44:40 PM
I'm pretty good at the whole english thing, but I had no idea that Ice cream was hyphenated, or Bumblebee for that matter.
I don't think that it's the internet's fault, rather it's a way to stream line English. There is no rule that says that Languages can't evolve over time
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 LillianDulci
Female, 18-29, Eastern US
443 Posts
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 5:44:06 PM
LMAO InvaderTiger! |
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 ZackDark
Male, 18-29, S. America
28 Posts
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 5:08:36 PM
Intriguing. I do believe I have seen 'bumblebee' written as one in a few texts that are actually older than the Internet as we know it.
However, English is not my mother-launguage, so I could only guess. |
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 lizbian_2
Female, 18-29, Midwest US
126 Posts
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 4:21:02 PM
Looks like those where hyphens that were more widely used in Europe, I think. I have never spelled bumblebee with a hyphen (bumble-bee). Most of those hyphens seemed to move out before the internet came along, at least in America. They aren't needed all the time. Why do they have to make it sound like a bad thing anyway? Language changes all the time, every language evolves. The only reason English has stayed somewhat the same since the 1500's is because it has been written down. Had we not written it down it would be much different today. |
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 angelicamber
Female, 18-29, Southern US
2226 Posts
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 3:49:20 PM
I didn't know most of those had hyphens? |
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 InvaderTiger
Female, 13-17, Eastern US
13 Posts
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 3:39:16 PM
I saw that at a glance as "thousands of hyenas perish as English marches on" and wondered what the English have against African canines. |
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 Nidonemo
Male, 18-29, Western US
6443 Posts
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:40:24 PM
...those words had hyphens?! I never used hyphens for those words even BEFORE I discovered the internet! |
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fghj
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
367 Posts
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:09:11 PM
rip |
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