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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by joesmo on Monday December 15, 2014 @09:47AM (#8752191)
This would be easily rectified if they looked up the words on each side of the hyphen. If they are actual words, then that hyphen should not count. If they are just partial words, then they should. But removing a book from circulation based on an obviously shoddy algorithm should never happen. As a Kindle author myself, I'm having second thoughts about the platform. Censorship by robots isn't exactly an attractive feature.
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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by Someone1234 on Monday December 15, 2014 @11:05AM (#8752640)
> If they are actual words, then that hyphen should not count.

That would have side-effects e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-barrelled_name

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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by chavesn on Monday December 15, 2014 @11:21AM (#8752709)
Of course there will be exceptions, and it wouldn't need to be perfect. It just needs to be better than counting hyphens alone, which the suggestion above inarguably is.
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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by tragic on Monday December 15, 2014 @11:19AM (#8752703)
Not to mention fantasy/SF love of invented languages. I'd hate to be HP Lovecraft if this becomes common.

Or have to quote transliterated Arabic, for that matter.

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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by undersuit on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @04:00PM (#8764316)
Names are proper nouns and therefore capitalized, the edge case is resolved until you find a proper noun with capitalization in the middle of the word with the hyphen coming before the capital letter. This seems to be limited to foreign words(German in particular) and Company Names where the author inserted a hyphen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamelCase#Current_usage_in_nat...
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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by joesmo on Monday December 15, 2014 @11:21AM (#8752710)
Well then they shouldn't do it at all or rethink their algorithm altogether.
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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by potatolicious on Monday December 15, 2014 @12:36PM (#8753145)
Or do the sane thing most other people do: back up an imperfect but effective algorithm with competent human review.
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