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Old 04-25-2010, 06:55 PM   #47
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Originally Posted by tompe View Post
And they fail on rivers and everybody notice that.

But the point is that a text is still harder to read even if an untrained person does not notice any problems. So there is still a need to enhance the text to make it more readable.
Rivers are a function of hyphenation. It's diminishing returns, beyond a point text is easy enough to read that further effort is pointless.
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