Return-Path: <root> Received: (from root@localhost) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) id f7VBv2b11434 for health-archive@nifl.gov; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 07:57:02 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <200108311157.f7VBv2b11434@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from dhhs.state.sc.us (gw.dhhs.state.sc.us [204.116.202.37]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f7RE99f22014 for <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov>; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 10:09:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from SHHSFC-Message_Server by dhhs.state.sc.us with Novell_GroupWise; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 05:30:53 -0400 Message-Id: <sb89db0d.020@dhhs.state.sc.us> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.5.2 Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 10:08:22 -0400 From: "Frank Adams" <ADAMS@dhhs.state.sc.us> To: <Christina_Zarcadoolas@brown.edu>, <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov>, <nifl-health@nifl.gov> Subject: Re: [NIFL-HEALTH:3320] To hyphen or not Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by literacy.nifl.gov id f7RE99f22014 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: 835 Lines: 27 Hyphens are "joiners" and my old AP stylebook says to use them "to avoid ambiguity or to form a single idea from two or more words." Another use is to avoid duplicated vowels or tripled consonants: anti-intellectual, shell-like. >>> Christina_Zarcadoolas@brown.edu 08/27/01 09:54AM >>> 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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