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Why is the thread title hyphenated? It made me expect there's a utility called "zfs-bug" causing data loss.

xxpor 9y ago
The OP appears to speak German natively. In German they are much more hyphen happy than English. It's probably the most common error I see among German speakers typing English.
- Conan_Kudo 9y ago
  This. German merges words together as their modifier mechanism, whereas English just uses word order to indicate modification. Since it's technically _not_ illegal in English to hyphenate to do the same thing, German speakers tend to do this for English. It's a very hard habit for them to break. :)
  - xxpor 9y ago
    One could argue that technically nothing's illegal in English, since there's no governing body, just what's in common use. Kind of like civil vs common law too, now that I think about it :)
- codetrotter 9y ago
  Same thing in Norway wrt hyphenation; we use hyphens a lot. And I am well aware that native English speakers use them much less frequently but I intentionally use hyphens in places where an English speaker would not when there is ambiguity that can be resolved by using them. I also use hyphens for aesthetic reasons sometimes just based on what looks better to me. Also like a sibling commenter said, it’s not necessarily an error to hyphenate even though people that grew up in the US or the UK wouldn’t. In the case of OP title I would not have hyphenated though.
- rhabarba 9y ago
  Too many Germans use "idiot spaces" ("Deppenleerzeichen") though, e.g. "Adler Straße" instead of the correct "Adlerstraße" or "Adler-Straße" ("Eagle Street"). Anglophony hasn't done us good.
- heinrichhartman 9y ago
  Exactly this. In German the headline would just have been: "Linuxzfsdatenverlustfehler gedfunden!" Getting this stuff right in English is hard. (Pun intended) Sry!
  - ableal 9y ago
    > gedfunden One of those days, eh? (You spent all the attention on that first word ;-)

The OP appears to speak German natively. In German they are much more hyphen happy than English. It's probably the most common error I see among German speakers typing English.

Conan_Kudo 9y ago
This. German merges words together as their modifier mechanism, whereas English just uses word order to indicate modification. Since it's technically _not_ illegal in English to hyphenate to do the same thing, German speakers tend to do this for English. It's a very hard habit for them to break. :)
- xxpor 9y ago
  One could argue that technically nothing's illegal in English, since there's no governing body, just what's in common use. Kind of like civil vs common law too, now that I think about it :)
codetrotter 9y ago
Same thing in Norway wrt hyphenation; we use hyphens a lot. And I am well aware that native English speakers use them much less frequently but I intentionally use hyphens in places where an English speaker would not when there is ambiguity that can be resolved by using them. I also use hyphens for aesthetic reasons sometimes just based on what looks better to me. Also like a sibling commenter said, it’s not necessarily an error to hyphenate even though people that grew up in the US or the UK wouldn’t. In the case of OP title I would not have hyphenated though.
rhabarba 9y ago
Too many Germans use "idiot spaces" ("Deppenleerzeichen") though, e.g. "Adler Straße" instead of the correct "Adlerstraße" or "Adler-Straße" ("Eagle Street"). Anglophony hasn't done us good.
heinrichhartman 9y ago
Exactly this. In German the headline would just have been: "Linuxzfsdatenverlustfehler gedfunden!" Getting this stuff right in English is hard. (Pun intended) Sry!
- ableal 9y ago
  > gedfunden One of those days, eh? (You spent all the attention on that first word ;-)