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Title: Thousands of hyphens perish as English marches on
Post by: chokkan 2 on September 22, 2007, 05:04:11 PM: About 16,000 words have succumbed to pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens in a new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. Bumble-bee is now bumblebee, ice-cream is ice cream and pot-belly is pot belly. And if you've got a problem, don't be such a crybaby (formerly cry-baby). (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/britain_hyphen1_dc;_ylt=Ass3r_TroybQ3jU9sDRrxZTtiBIF)
Title: Re: Thousands of hyphens perish as English marches on
Post by: RatBastich on September 22, 2007, 05:10:30 PM: The intawebz have changed the dictionary.
What could be next? :P
Title: Re: Thousands of hyphens perish as English marches on
Post by: polidread on September 22, 2007, 06:23:16 PM: i LOL ROTF while my engRish teacher make this face T.T
Title: Re: Thousands of hyphens perish as English marches on
Post by: Asmodai on September 22, 2007, 08:27:57 PM: Meh. Hyphens were dumb to begin with.
Title: Re: Thousands of hyphens perish as English marches on
Post by: JFC on September 22, 2007, 08:31:59 PM: Ice cream was supposed to he hyphenated? O_o That's news to me.
Title: Re: Thousands of hyphens perish as English marches on
Post by: chokkan 2 on September 22, 2007, 09:57:50 PM: Quote from: JFC on September 22, 2007, 08:31:59 PM
Ice cream was supposed to he hyphenated? O_o That's news to me.

yes ~ that's what I learn when I was a kid XD
Title: Re: Thousands of hyphens perish as English marches on
Post by: Rina the Robot on September 22, 2007, 10:15:55 PM: Is it bad that I'm glad? :?
Title: Re: Thousands of hyphens perish as English marches on
Post by: StreakInTheSky on September 23, 2007, 08:40:44 PM: Quote from: Asmodai on September 22, 2007, 08:27:57 PM
Meh. Hyphens were dumb to begin with.

agreed
Title: Re: Thousands of hyphens perish as English marches on
Post by: Saburo on September 23, 2007, 08:46:53 PM: It's still "e-mail" right?
Title: Re: Thousands of hyphens perish as English marches on
Post by: Guchi_Jnr on September 24, 2007, 01:47:51 AM: I like hyphens!!
Fuck what this dictionary says.. My students miss them, they are also gonna miss points... 8)
Title: Re: Thousands of hyphens perish as English marches on
Post by: Asmodai on September 24, 2007, 05:17:53 AM: Quote from: Saburo on September 23, 2007, 08:46:53 PM
It's still "e-mail" right?

I think 'email' is just as acceptable.
Title: Re: Thousands of hyphens perish as English marches on
Post by: shadowstar on September 24, 2007, 07:32:46 AM: I hate hyphens anyway, so YAY!! :grin: