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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by sebular on Monday December 15, 2014 @12:39PM (#8753163)
That's a really poor response.

When Joyce published his first novel as a nobody, people like you would've said something equally thoughtless about his grammar, followed up by a glib "the writer is no Arthur Conan Doyle."

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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by MilnerRoute on Monday December 15, 2014 @03:56PM (#8754400)
James Joyce followed proper English when he published his first novel as a nobody. (And his second novel, and third.) He was also a professor of English at the time, so he wasn't really "a nobody" even then. So he may not be the best test case.
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