> But the point was that treating hyphens as parts of words is not generally a > wrong thing.
That brings us back to my original question: where's MODIFIER LETTER HYPHEN, then? A word is a sequence of letters, isn't it? :) I agree that conflating apostrophes and quotes is a source of problems, however, existence of the MODIFIER LETTER [same glyph as used for English contractions] in Unicode is a coincidence which should not have an effect on usage of apostrophes in English. Leo On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 11:58 PM, David Starner <[email protected]> wrote: > On June 4, 2015, at 11:01 PM, Leo Broukhis <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >>On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 9:25 PM, David Starner <[email protected]> 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.
