tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7122549.post114921603683076221..comments2023-11-10T16:19:46.880-05:00Comments on Blogslot: Hyphen ShortagesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7122549.post-1152718056836131222006-07-12T11:27:00.000-04:002006-07-12T11:27:00.000-04:00Sound-bite-free radio, without a doubt. We can't a...Sound-bite-free radio, without a doubt. We can't always have aesthetics, as I've been painfully reminded so often.<BR/><BR/>On the other hand: Technically, yes, it would be long-term-care insurance and long-term-care facility, but that's the kind of construction on which I weasel out of the technicality and maintain that we are indeed talking about care insurance and care facilities, and so a care facility of the long-term variety can certainly be called a long-term care facility, with one hyphen. Quite different from abuse legislation that is anti-child or free radio of a sound-bite nature.Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01512881095588291721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7122549.post-1149626950001117102006-06-06T16:49:00.000-04:002006-06-06T16:49:00.000-04:00Yes, for the world beyond newspapers and ASCII the...Yes, for the world beyond newspapers and ASCII there is the en dash, but it just doesn't work for me -- and I don't trust that people without Ivy League degrees in English have the foggiest idea what's going on when they see such a thing.Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01512881095588291721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7122549.post-1149543756937786052006-06-05T17:42:00.000-04:002006-06-05T17:42:00.000-04:00On a somewhat similar note, I had an issue with hy...On a somewhat similar note, I had an issue with hyphens in a piece about "partial-birth abortion," specifically when it was necessary (or convenient, rather) to refer to state laws criminalizing partial-birth abortion: partial-birth-abortion bans. It seems that the extra hyphen makes people uncomfortable. (I am aware that the term "partial-birth abortion" or "partial-birth" abortion, as some prefer, is an obvious dysphemism that is medically inaccurate. I used "intact D & E" in the article when possible.)H. Philip Asterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00970489392681184111noreply@blogger.com