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This is down to practice. Most people who spent a few years reading books and newspapers stop noticing the hyphenation at all.
by jacobolus 8y ago
This 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...