Timeline for Mandatory usage of Hyphens?
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| Jun 8, 2015 at 11:56 | vote | accept | Mathias Vonende | ||
| Jun 8, 2015 at 11:55 | history | edited | Mathias Vonende | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 8, 2015 at 8:56 | comment | added | Brian Hitchcock | In English, hyphenation depends on usage. Take, for example the phrasal verb "log in" which is open (two words when used as a verb: " please log in"— usually hyphenated when used as an adjective: "log-in screen"—and usually closed (conjoined) "login ") when used as a noun: "User password is validated at login." That's one "rule". However, I estimate that over half of computer-literate people in the US do not know that rule, or do not apply it properly. And they are who build the web sites. | |
| Jun 8, 2015 at 8:43 | comment | added | Brian Hitchcock | In English, hyphens are used to connect words that otherwise would be separate, rather than to separate words that otherwise would be joined. | |
| Jun 8, 2015 at 8:40 | history | edited | Brian Hitchcock | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Capitalized German and English.
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| Jun 8, 2015 at 8:24 | answer | added | Brian Hitchcock | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 7, 2015 at 23:04 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Don't think that English is an incoherent free-for-all. Sensible guidelines are followed, in the main. There are probably more improvements to the language in the long run than disimprovements. But the whole process is largely democratic. | |
| Jun 7, 2015 at 23:03 | comment | added | Mathias Vonende | @WS2: then you are using a "Deppenleerzeichen" wich is considered bad style in some circles. | |
| Jun 7, 2015 at 22:59 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @WS2 Ve haf vays ... | |
| Jun 7, 2015 at 22:56 | comment | added | Mathias Vonende | @Edwin Ashworth: thanks, I did't knew that, I searched for general rules and found only contraticting infos on google (most of it on sites you refer to in the first comment). I guess that explains it ;-) | |
| Jun 7, 2015 at 22:42 | comment | added | WS2 | @maze-le And what happens if you do not observe these mandatory rules in German? | |
| Jun 7, 2015 at 22:41 | comment | added | Yoav Kallus | With regard to your actual example, one major difference between English and German grammars is that German very often forms compounds by agglutination, while English very rarely does. In both of the examples you give in German, the hyphen is used because normally the components would be agglutinated into a single word, but in these cases such a word would be awkward, and so a hyphen is used instead. The reason no hyphen is used in the English text you quote is simply because the normal way of forming compounds in English leaves the components as separate words without agglutination. | |
| Jun 7, 2015 at 22:29 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 7, 2015 at 22:09 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | There is no such work in English. There are more and less prestigious dictionaries (OED being the usual final arbiter, though it contains less than about 60% of 'acknowledged' English words) and grammars ('The Syntactic Phenomena of English'_James D McCawley being perhaps the best, though by no means definitive). English is largely descriptivist rather than prescriptivist. And it changes. This includes favoured punctuation styles also. Look up articles on English hyphen usage here and on the internet. | |
| Jun 7, 2015 at 22:04 | comment | added | Hot Licks | There are no rules in English. There used to be, but all the rule-makers retired 10-20 years ago. | |
| Jun 7, 2015 at 22:03 | history | edited | Mathias Vonende | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 7, 2015 at 22:01 | comment | added | Mathias Vonende | I refer to the "Duden" this is - the - official dictionary and grammar rulebook of the german language. | |
| Jun 7, 2015 at 21:58 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | You do not say which authority says that some usages of hyphens in German are mandatory. Is there an overall ruling body? Far too often, people submit things like 'You have to use ...' on ELU citing the views / recommendations of one institution / linguist / style guide as if they were gospel. Shall I cite the 'rule' that proper adjectives should be capitalised in English? | |
| Jun 7, 2015 at 20:55 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jun 7, 2015 at 20:55 | history | asked | Mathias Vonende | CC BY-SA 3.0 |