Comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk 6 months ago Tangential, how do you hyphenate (((very old) growth) tree)? 6 comments 8n4vidtmkvmk Reply saltcured 6 months ago In English, we're making a compound adjective so it would be very-old-growth tree.It's one step short of the German compound noun, and we make it easier to find the fragments... ronjakoi 6 months ago English is the only language I know of that allows spaces in compound words at all. It's a very peculiar feature of English orthography. Timwi 6 months ago Mandarin written in pinyin comes to mind as another example. Do you discount that because pinyin is not the primary writing system used for that language? 1 reply → gowld 6 months ago This sort of thing comes up often for me. I use extended hyphenation to declare precedence: very-old--growth tree. jodrellblank 6 months ago ancient-growth tree
saltcured 6 months ago In English, we're making a compound adjective so it would be very-old-growth tree.It's one step short of the German compound noun, and we make it easier to find the fragments... ronjakoi 6 months ago English is the only language I know of that allows spaces in compound words at all. It's a very peculiar feature of English orthography. Timwi 6 months ago Mandarin written in pinyin comes to mind as another example. Do you discount that because pinyin is not the primary writing system used for that language? 1 reply →
ronjakoi 6 months ago English is the only language I know of that allows spaces in compound words at all. It's a very peculiar feature of English orthography. Timwi 6 months ago Mandarin written in pinyin comes to mind as another example. Do you discount that because pinyin is not the primary writing system used for that language? 1 reply →
Timwi 6 months ago Mandarin written in pinyin comes to mind as another example. Do you discount that because pinyin is not the primary writing system used for that language? 1 reply →
gowld 6 months ago This sort of thing comes up often for me. I use extended hyphenation to declare precedence: very-old--growth tree.
In English, we're making a compound adjective so it would be very-old-growth tree.
It's one step short of the German compound noun, and we make it easier to find the fragments...
English is the only language I know of that allows spaces in compound words at all. It's a very peculiar feature of English orthography.
Mandarin written in pinyin comes to mind as another example. Do you discount that because pinyin is not the primary writing system used for that language?
1 reply →
This sort of thing comes up often for me. I use extended hyphenation to declare precedence: very-old--growth tree.
ancient-growth tree