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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by Dylan16807 on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @06:58PM (#8760346)
It's easy enough to ask the person that wrote it. Why, do you think answering that is typically difficult or unclear?

And to be clear I mean asking about specific instances, so don't point back at the blog post, which seems to be a case of Amazon making a mistake. All of the hyphens quoted from Moonstruck are grammatically correct.

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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by thizzbuzz on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @09:54PM (#8760846)
True, if the process just involves asking the author then I have no issues with that, and it should be easy to resolve.

I do think it is difficult for anyone other than the author to answer that question though. For me, only the "red-head scarf" example would be a mistake, but others in this thread indicated that 3 or 4 of the examples were wrong for them.

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