Return-Path: <root> Received: (from root@localhost) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) id f7VBv3u11440 for health-archive@nifl.gov; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 07:57:03 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <200108311157.f7VBv3u11440@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from cpha.ca (209-87-228-91.ottawa.storm.ca [209.87.228.91]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f7REQAf22458 for <nifl-health@nifl.gov>; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 10:26:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [10.10.10.168] (209.87.228.89) by cpha.ca with ESMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.2.2); Mon, 27 Aug 2001 10:17:36 -0400 Message-Id: <p04310102b7b00782fd7d@[10.10.10.168]> In-Reply-To: <sb89db0d.020@dhhs.state.sc.us> References: <sb89db0d.020@dhhs.state.sc.us> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 10:25:31 -0400 To: nifl-health@nifl.gov From: Kathy Bose <kbose@cpha.ca> Subject: Re: [NIFL-HEALTH:3321] Re: To hyphen or not Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by literacy.nifl.gov id f7REQAf22458 Resent-From: root@literacy.nifl.gov Resent-Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 07:57:03 -0400 Resent-To: health-archive@nifl.gov Status: O Content-Length: 1522 Lines: 56 Dear Colleagues, I think that Chris is right about avoiding hyphenated words if possible. I would tend to write "...shaped like a shell" rather than shell-like, or "take care of yourself" rather than practise self-care. Kathy >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 -- KATHY BOSE Plain Language Service Manager National Literacy and Health Program Gestionnaire du service de révision en style clair et simple Programme nationale sur l'alphabétisation et la santé Canadian Public Health Association 1565 Carling Avenue, Suite 400 Ottawa, Ontario Canada, K1Z 8R1 Plain Language Service Website: http://www.pls.cpha.ca PHONE: (613)725-3769 ext.168 FAX: (613)725-9826 E-MAIL: <kbose@cpha.ca>
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