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As to the rule of puncatuation, I have an example for you to think about the difference of language in their nature. When using a typewriter to print a letter, it's inevitable that some hyphens are needed to break a long word in the end of a line. Thanks to modern font rendering technology, we don't see hyphens often now, but they do exist in books published many years ago. Can we criticize that those books are ill-formated or poorly published? Besides, in Chinese text, we don't use hyphen to break a word (glyph), because every glyph is distinct. Do you think it ridiculous when you hear people say that Chinese publication is far advanced because they don't use hyphen in the end of a line? I think the answer is quite obvious.
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