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Those to me seem like a perfectly acceptable use of a hyphen.
Motorhome is not hyphenated.
For example, spellcheck has a curly red underline right now. But would it really look better as spell-check?
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> 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.
Language is about communicating ideas, I couldn't care less if someone leaves out that arcane little tick or uses the wrong pronoun. In 99% of cases it makes no difference to comprehensibility.
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Yet somehow they didn't pull A Dance With Dragons, which had appalling hyphenation in the original release.
You're blaming them for giving different treatment to an author who's at least a million times more important to their business?
So, I looked through the preview of the author's "High Moor" which is available on Amazon.co.uk and I see things like: "One of them picked up what looked like a dog's hind-leg and put it in a white plastic bag." "With the two-week Easter holiday just over a month away, ..." "The woman's white hair was hidden by a red-head scarf, ..." "The door of one of the expensive motor-homes opened ..." Seems to me Amazon may hav…
Those to me seem like a perfectly acceptable use of a hyphen.
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I'd say most of that usage is unnecessary clutter. Hyphens are intended to disambiguate grouping of word pairs. I haven't heard of anything called a "dog hind" that could have a leg. "The woman's white hair was hidden by a red-head scarf, ..." That's incorrect, isn't it? It's reinforcing the potential confusion that the hyphen is meant to avoid. Unless she really was wearing a red scarf made from someone's head?
Yes. What they were going for was "red head-scarf", but that is also questionable. I've only ever seen "head scarf" unhyphenated.
There are some exceptions: e.g., I've read you should always write "Douglas-fir" instead of "Douglas fir" because it's not actually a fir.
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Completely missing the point, Mr. Know-it-all.
Weird that you call me Mr Know it all when i have already said that my grammar is terrible. You're missing the point - when a person is complaining about other people's misuse of grammar, and does so on a webpage that has "grammar matters" in big letters at the top, they really need to make sure that their grammar is not blatantly incorrect. Obvious errors discredit the point they're trying to make. See also Skitt's…
So, I looked through the preview of the author's "High Moor" which is available on Amazon.co.uk and I see things like: "One of them picked up what looked like a dog's hind-leg and put it in a white plastic bag." "With the two-week Easter holiday just over a month away, ..." "The woman's white hair was hidden by a red-head scarf, ..." "The door of one of the expensive motor-homes opened ..." Seems to me Amazon may hav…
But you're correct that the others examples are erroneous, some egregiously so. I had to read the "red-head scarf" several times before I was finally able to parse out the presumed meaning: "red headscarf".
1. Source: me. I worked for 10 years as a translator, editor, and proofreader for Lionbridge and many other multinational publishing and localization companies before moving into software development.
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I don't think that's what the author is talking about. They mean hyphenated words such as 'wind-up'. The current screen or font doesn't make a difference for whether or not that's hyphenated. You're thinking of hyphenation for splitting a word over a line.
That's what the author thinks the problem is, but we don't know because the book isn't available and there isn't a list of the hyphenated words. It's possible that most of those hyphens are line-break hyphens, not word-join hyphens.
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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.