It would be nice if the author would include a sample page of where the hyphens are used. We don't know if they are just used for word breaking across lines from a poor ebook or if they are used for joining words. I went to amazon to try to check, but it says item under review, so its not like we can see the real situation.
Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation
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#32"and included a handy link to the Oxford English Dictionaries definition page which described it’s usage" AHEM
> it’s usage
That’s not the only nor the biggest nit you can pick with this essay.
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#33"and included a handy link to the Oxford English Dictionaries definition page which described it’s usage" AHEM
Let me copy/paste a reply I just posted.
"Let me shame you every time you introduce a bug/typo in your code."
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#34Off topic, but has it occurred to anyone that the overuse of the term 'war on x' might impair what the word 'war' really stands for?
George Carlin more than 20 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilipDBclxRc
Edwin Starr too
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#35"and included a handy link to the Oxford English Dictionaries definition page which described it’s usage" AHEM
Also, should be Oxford English Dictionary's. Gotta watch that punctuation. :)
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#36Use en dash instead of normal dash and hope amazon's bots don't notice.
If that fails, replace - with ·. Include preface "due to limitations of Amazon's ebook technology, this book uses the · symbol in place of - for hyphenating words".
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#37"and included a handy link to the Oxford English Dictionaries definition page which described it’s usage" AHEM
Theirs always someone nitpicking...
> Theirs always someone nitpicking...
Based on my limited experience, people who think grammar Nazis are annoying shouldn't be suspected of being too intelligent.
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#38When you have "grammar matters" in big fucking letters at the top of a blog you really need to proof read. > So, chuckling to myself, I sent back a response pointing out that the use of a hyphen to join two words together was perfectly valid in the English language and included a handy link to the Oxford English Dictionaries definition page which described it’s usage. POSSESSIVE ITS HAS NO APOSTROPHE. Normally I real…
Let me shame you every time you introduce a bug/typo in your code.
Please do. Especially if I have "grammar matters" in big letters in those code headers and the code is about grammar.
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#39When there are discussions about Hachette, one often sees writers saying "Amazon gives me more of the cover price, and gets my book into people's hands faster, what's the downside?" I guess this is the downside.
As someone who has been using a Kindle for almost all my book reading in the last few years, the major publishers don't care. Doesn't matter what I read it tends to have quite a few OCR errors and other mistakes that clearly exist for the print edition (extra hyphens) or 'correcting' things that used to be hyphenated (by removing the hyphen that needs to be there). My new Kindle has the ability to let me report typos…
Agreed. It's worse for technical books in my experience. The last few I've bought have had unreadable code samples and screwed up or just plain missing contents pages. It's got to the point where I'm going back to buying paper textbooks.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Theirs always someone nitpicking...
> Theirs always someone nitpicking... https://i.imgur.com/L2Rhc.png Based on my limited experience, people who think grammar Nazis are annoying shouldn't be suspected of being too intelligent.
They derail the conversation. Of course they're annoying..