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Originally Posted by Helgetus
I am not a native speaker - obviously - but I was a little annoyed when I did not get a reply to my first post. 
Yes, I am aware of the fact that the PW will not be available in Germany before 9 Oct. Nevertheless I expect hyphenation to work as well in English text however less frequent. |
I missed this post. I don't know that anyone would miss it in English. I don't recall seeing much hyphenation even in paper books, back when I was still reading the, though I could be wrong.
In a language like German, and from Katsunami says, Dutch, it is definitely bad not to have it.
Katsunami, BTW, what you described as happening in Dutch is also happening in German. More annoying than the separation of words that should be compound words, tough, is the crazy proliferation of the apostrophe. Many Germans are going apostrophe crazy, adding an apostrophe before the possessive "s" (in German we just add it to the name - no apostrophe) ... guess it looks cool... Drives me insane...
