[tei-council] A nice easy one

Laurent Romary laurent.romary at loria.fr
Sat Jan 16 21:17:01 EST 2010


I vote for "stand-off" (to allow my fingers to keep typing this  
automatically) and confirm that Piotr, sitting next to me in Hong Kong  
prefers it as well.
Cheers,
Laurent

Le 16 janv. 10 à 17:38, Kevin Hawkins a écrit :

> Being a bit of a nut for orthography, I wholeheartedly support
> "stand-off" or "standoff" but never "stand off" when used as an
> adjective, as in "stand-off markup".  I don't think any of use "stand
> off" as a verb (never hyphenated in any case) or as a noun  
> (hyphenation
> debatable).
>
> The hyphenation fanatics get riled up over hyphenated words vs. space
> between words, not hyphenated words vs. written as one word.  You  
> write
> something as one word if it becomes well known as a compound and isn't
> hard to read without the hyphen.  That's why it's okay to write  
> "email".
>  There are a a few ossified exceptions (like "ice cream") that are
> unfortunate pollutions of the purity of the English language. ;-)
>
> Kevin
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