On June 4, 2015, at 11:01 PM, Leo Broukhis <l...@mailcom.com> wrote:
> > >On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 9:25 PM, David Starner <prosfil...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Hyphens generally make multiple words into one anyway. There's not really >multiple hyphens the way there's separate quotes and apostrophes. > >Generally, but not always, just as apostrophes aren't always at a contracted >word boundary. There is only one hyphen because no language (AFAIK) claims it >as part of its alphabet. But the point was that treating hyphens as parts of words is not generally a wrong thing. There is one generally consistent rule for hyphens. When apostrophes and quotes are conflated, there is no one generally acceptable rule.
