← Back to context Comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk 2 days ago Tangential, how do you hyphenate (((very old) growth) tree)? 6 comments 8n4vidtmkvmk Reply saltcured 2 days 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 2 days 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 13 hours 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 → jodrellblank 2 days ago ancient-growth tree gowld 2 days ago This sort of thing comes up often for me. I use extended hyphenation to declare precedence: very-old--growth tree.
saltcured 2 days 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 2 days 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 13 hours 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 2 days 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 13 hours 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 13 hours 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 2 days 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 →
ancient-growth tree
This sort of thing comes up often for me. I use extended hyphenation to declare precedence: very-old--growth tree.