[tei-council] A nice easy one

[Dot Porter]

I vote for stand-off

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Laurent Romary <laurent.romary at loria.fr> wrote:
> 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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