Odd hyphenations

[imwitty]

You just belong to the different generation ... like myself. (;'-)) My
teacher left 12 of my school peers for the 2nd time in the 5th grade for
their low performance...

Two guesses:

Taking in consideration the SECTION, the author of that piece probably is
former (not very successful) sportsman/woman, who got his/her high school
diploma, but skipped many classes due to his/her participation in some
sport competitions, events, games. The same way he/she got a BA, or maybe
even MA.

Unfortunately, that tendency is (and was) international. Many years ago, we
had a joke "His father had two sons: one was smart, and another the soccer
player" (you may substitute your choice of sport for "soccer".)

Another possibility: their page layout person was trying to squeeze and fit
that article in the available space, and used  that really weird
hyphenation, instead of tracking (i.e., reducing space between the letters)
without using some smaller size font.

L.
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On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> When I was in the second grade, Sr. Claire Marie metaphorically kicked my
> ass for hyphenating "often" as "of-ten." She just blew up. But, f the word
> is pronounced "off'n," then its proper hyphenation will be less than
> straightforward to the six-year-old mind. I *still* don't understand why.
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> Of course, these days, one is surprised by hyphenation not because it is
> done well, but because it is done at all.
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> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > Hyphenations seen today in the Boston Globe Sports section:
> >
> > de-ked -- to take off one canvas shoe?  (In reality, how Clint
> > Dempsey maneuvered to score his goal for the U.S. in the World Cup.)
> >
> > chan-geup -- a cowboy urging on his Chinese horse?  (In reality -- or
> > vain hope? -- something Red Sox pitcher Rubby De La Rosa is
> > rightfully proud of.)
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> > No wonder non-native speakers can't learn how to pronounce English.
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> > Joel
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