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I have to agree. Sounds like a lot of people here like it, but I find it confusing. One example I see on this page is "be-fore", In my head it is "be. fore."
by nfoz 8y ago
I have to agree. Sounds like a lot of people here like it, but I find it confusing.
One example I see on this page is "be-fore", In my head it is "be. fore." and suddenly this word seems to have a lot more emphasis than it ought to have. And I also get distracted when it's unclear if a word was intentionally hyphenated or just auto-hyphenated. Maybe just the way that some of us process text.
- jacobolus 8y agoThis is down to practice. Most people who spent a few years reading books and newspapers stop noticing the hyphenation at all.
- robbrown451 8y agoMaybe true, but for whatever reason they haven't been used much on the web, and I think the lack of hyphenation has proved itself to be preferable. Sure, you can practice and learn to get used to it (the first half of my life there was no web, so I certainly did), but why should you have to? YOU CaN gEt usED To tHIS as wELl, wiTh somE PRActICE. I'd like to see a study that actually measures reading speed and comprehension with and without. Here's a good example of a place where having right justification was important for aesthetics, but they still chose not to hyphenate (presumably because it is just ugly): https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2016/12/20/14/star-wars-opening-crawl.jpg?w968h681 https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/imag...