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Old 09-05-2009, 08:09 AM   #58
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Originally Posted by ericshliao View Post
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.
Another reason for that is that most 19th century novels were originally published in weekly or monthly magazines, and printed in narrow magazine columns, which inevitably resulted in a great many hyphenated words, which were retained even when the work was subsequenty reprinted as a book.
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