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Yes I see where you’re coming from if you want to read the blobs, but I cannot recall a situation where I wanted to read them more than once. Not in Dutch or Ge
by chronogram 8y ago
Yes I see where you’re coming from if you want to read the blobs, but I cannot recall a situation where I wanted to read them more than once. Not in Dutch or German, so I do really appreciate the lack of hyphenation when reading those languages (on my phone screen especially).
Maybe you do get into those situations?
- Tomte 8y agoArwe you really saying that words above a certain length don't interest you when reading an article with that word? And what is the "more than once" thing supposed to mean? Hyphenation helps the first time, too.
- misnome 8y agoI think they are referring to the way many (most?) people read most words - recognising the shape rather than reading the individual letters. Presumably if your language contains several common and unique long words you quickly start to recognise the shape and so no longer need to read the letters.
- Tomte 8y agoYes, I understood that. But the hyphenated parts are also words (if you're hyphenating intelligently), so you recognize their shapes just as well, probably even better.