Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation
by chavesn on Monday December 15, 2014 @11:21AM
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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.
Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation
by tragic on Monday December 15, 2014 @11:19AM
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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.
Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation
by undersuit on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @04:00PM
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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...
Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation
by joesmo on Monday December 15, 2014 @11:21AM
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Well then they shouldn't do it at all or rethink their algorithm altogether.
Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation
by potatolicious on Monday December 15, 2014 @12:36PM
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Or do the sane thing most other people do: back up an imperfect but effective algorithm with competent human review.
That would have side-effects e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-barrelled_name