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The intrusive hyphen is everywhere
English Today ( IF 1.156 ) Pub Date : 2019-04-25 , DOI: 10.1017/s0266078419000075
John E. Booth

When can a hyphen be described as ‘intrusive’? As with many other ‘rules’ of grammar and of punctuation, use of the hyphen is limited to a specific syntactical context. Hence, to use a hyphen where it should not be used makes it intrusive. Just like the apostrophe, it cannot be used arbitrarily. There is, for instance, a tattooist parlour in the English town of Oldham whose shopfront advertises Inkcredible Tatoo's (sic) and, with it, both the owner's or owners’ ability to play on words in writing and their inability to sign a plural form correctly – the rule being that apostrophes are not used to mark the plural of either common or proper nouns in written English.

中文翻译:

侵入性连字符无处不在

什么时候可以将连字符描述为“侵入性”?与语法和标点符号的许多其他“规则”一样,连字符的使用仅限于特定的句法上下文。因此,在不应该使用连字符的地方使用连字符会使其具有侵入性。就像撇号一样,不能随意使用。例如,英国奥尔德姆镇有一家纹身店,其店面广告Inkcredible Tatoo's(原文如此)以及所有者或所有者在书面上玩文字的能力以及他们无法正确签署复数形式的规则是撇号不用于标记普通名词或专有名词的复数形式书面英语。
更新日期:2019-04-25
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