Hyphenation stage disappearing?

[Dan Goncharoff]

Thanks! I did not realize the phenomenon had a name, or several, not to
mention a rich history.

DanG


On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Aug 7, 2013, at 10:47 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
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> > I work with a nonprofit that, ten years ago, adopted a name with capital
> > letters in the middle of words: PortSide NewYork.
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> a.k.a. CamelCase
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> LH
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> > Over time, we have seen more and more entities use this feature in their
> > name.
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> > How long before this migrates into standard English? After all, many
> brand
> > names become words.
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> > DanG
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> > 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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