Re: Failure of spoken hyphenation

Subject: Re: Failure of spoken hyphenation
From: Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca>
To: TechWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 07:47:24 -0800

I already went to the site, and they don't ust hyphens either!

My commas were places where an announcer might choose to pause when
reading the title aloud.

And shouldn't it technically be spelled "draught horse" anyway? <smirk>

-Tony



On 2011-02-02, at 6:03 AM, John Posada <jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> A Draft Horse is a type of horse, bred for pulling...think Clydesdale.
>
> There should be no commas. Go to their site and they don't use commas.
> If a hyphen were to be used, it would be Draft-Horse, as it is a type
> of horse, but they don't.
>
>>
>> a) Southern National, Draft Horse, Pull
>> b) Southern National Draft, Horse Pull
>> c) Southern, National Draft Horse, Pull
>>
>> Without any knowledge of the event, I'd read it like B.
>
> --
> John Posada
> http://jposada.zenfolio.com/
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References:
Failure of spoken hyphenation: From: Peter Neilson
Re: Failure of spoken hyphenation: From: Marguerite Krupp
Re: Failure of spoken hyphenation: From: Gene Kim-Eng
Re: Failure of spoken hyphenation: From: Tony Chung
Re: Failure of spoken hyphenation: From: John Posada

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