Return-Path: <root> Received: (from root@localhost) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) id f7VBv2P11429 for health-archive@nifl.gov; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 07:57:02 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <200108311157.f7VBv2P11429@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.144]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f7RDpaf21464 for <nifl-health@nifl.gov>; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:51:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cx1203469-a.brown.edu ([24.253.139.33]) by femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010827135129.MCGP648.femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com@cx1203469-a.brown.edu> for <nifl-health@nifl.gov>; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 06:51:29 -0700 Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.2.20010827095000.02071120@postoffice.brown.edu> X-Sender: Christina_Zarcadoolas@postoffice.brown.edu (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:52:40 -0400 To: nifl-health@nifl.gov From: Christina Zarcadoolas <Christina_Zarcadoolas@brown.edu> Subject: To hyphen or not In-Reply-To: <6d.19538f16.28bb962b@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Resent-From: root@literacy.nifl.gov Resent-Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 07:57:02 -0400 Resent-To: health-archive@nifl.gov Status: O Content-Length: 542 Lines: 21 At 08:29 AM 8/27/01 -0400, you wrote: Re hypthens In most field testing of text I have done with low literate readers hypthenated words are hard to read - they get mis cued ( should that be hypthenated btw?) Simple truth is for low lit readers relying on the visual "wholeness" of a word, hyphens are an obstacle to the form of the word. just my two-cent thought :) Chris Christina Zarcadoolas, PhD Center for Environmental Studies Box 1943 Brown University Providence, RI 02912 (401) 863-7347 fax (401) 863-3503 email: caz@brown.edu
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