Hyphenation stage disappearing?

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Aug 7 16:03:02 UTC 2013


On Aug 7, 2013, at 10:47 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:

> I work with a nonprofit that, ten years ago, adopted a name with capital
> letters in the middle of words: PortSide NewYork.
>

a.k.a. CamelCase

LH

> Over time, we have seen more and more entities use this feature in their
> name.
>
> How long before this migrates into standard English? After all, many brand
> names become words.
>
> DanG
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 12:06 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> And inadditionto unspaced, dehyphenated Compoundconcatenation, capitalizing
>> all Nouns would enhance translationsoftware Accuracy. Der Meinung bin ich.
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