{"id":471,"date":"2004-01-02T07:37:36","date_gmt":"2004-01-02T07:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=471"},"modified":"2004-01-02T07:37:36","modified_gmt":"2004-01-02T07:37:36","slug":"the-last-thing-i-will-ever-write-about-hyphenation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/01\/the-last-thing-i-will-ever-write-about-hyphenation\/","title":{"rendered":"The last thing I will ever write about hyphenation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Phillip Blanchard would say, <a href=\"javascript:HaloScan('107302138806530653');\">this is simple<\/a>: If adding a hyphen to a compound modifier makes something more clear or more accurate, then add it. If leaving the hyphen out makes it inaccurate, then for God&#8217;s sake put it in there.<br \/>\n<P>The key point is: adding a hyphen <i>must add meaning.<\/i> If it&#8217;s not adding meaning it&#8217;s just taking up space.  If you want go around hyphenating &#8220;peanut-butter sandwich&#8221; and &#8220;middle-school teacher&#8221; and other stuff that&#8217;s crystal clear without the hyphen, the best I can say is you&#8217;re not doing any harm. But you&#8217;re not doing any <i>good<\/i> either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Phillip Blanchard would say, this is simple: If adding a hyphen to a compound modifier makes something more clear or more accurate, then add it. If leaving the hyphen out makes it inaccurate, then for God&#8217;s sake put it&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/01\/the-last-thing-i-will-ever-write-about-hyphenation\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}