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At least in English (I don't know other languages well enough to speak with any any kind of knowledge) whenever you want a term containing 2+ words meant to be

by fooqux 2y ago

At least in English (I don't know other languages well enough to speak with any any kind of knowledge) whenever you want a term containing 2+ words meant to be taken together, you use a hyphen. Compound words, I believe they are called. From what I can tell, they should have spelled it brain-rot.

gruez 2y ago
>whenever you want a term containing 2+ words meant to be taken together, you use a hyphen. Compound words, I believe they are called. So the shopping festival after thanksgiving should be called "black-friday"?
- fooqux 2y ago
  > So the shopping festival after thanksgiving should be called "black-friday"? I would say this is a prime example, yes.
  - gre 2y ago
    Prime-day?
snvzz 2y ago
Or just brainrot. It'll win at the end. Hitting that spacebar is effort.
- fooqux 2y ago
  Yes, many words that started out as two words separated by a hyphen merge to become one as language evolves. Notebook is a good example of this; a more recent example would be email.
  - xanderlewis 2y ago
    In German it happens even more quickly.
    - teractiveodular 2y ago
      I thought you only used hyphens in German in exceptional circumstances like proper names in compounds? Karl-Marx-Allee etc.
      - xanderlewis 2y ago
        Well, what I meant was that concepts made up of several words almost immediately become one word in German (without hyphens).
karaokeyoga 2y ago
A general heuristic is: single word is the noun form (e.g. "I made a backup"), two words is the verb form (e.g. "back up your data"), and hyphenated words is the adjectival form (e.g. "the back-up copy is over there").
FabHK 2y ago
One minute on Wikipedia would have disabused you of that wrong notion: > If the joining of the words or signs is orthographically represented with a hyphen, the result is a hyphenated compound (e.g., must-have, hunter-gatherer). If they are joined without an intervening space, it is a closed compound (e.g., footpath, blackbird). If they are joined with a space (e.g. school bus, high school, lowest common denominator), then the result – at least in English – may be an open compound. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics)

by fooqux 2y ago

gruez 2y ago

>whenever you want a term containing 2+ words meant to be taken together, you use a hyphen. Compound words, I believe they are called. So the shopping festival after thanksgiving should be called "black-friday"?

fooqux 2y ago
> So the shopping festival after thanksgiving should be called "black-friday"? I would say this is a prime example, yes.
- gre 2y ago
  Prime-day?

snvzz 2y ago

Or just brainrot. It'll win at the end. Hitting that spacebar is effort.

fooqux 2y ago
Yes, many words that started out as two words separated by a hyphen merge to become one as language evolves. Notebook is a good example of this; a more recent example would be email.
- xanderlewis 2y ago
  In German it happens even more quickly.
  - teractiveodular 2y ago
    I thought you only used hyphens in German in exceptional circumstances like proper names in compounds? Karl-Marx-Allee etc.
    - xanderlewis 2y ago
      Well, what I meant was that concepts made up of several words almost immediately become one word in German (without hyphens).

karaokeyoga 2y ago

A general heuristic is: single word is the noun form (e.g. "I made a backup"), two words is the verb form (e.g. "back up your data"), and hyphenated words is the adjectival form (e.g. "the back-up copy is over there").

FabHK 2y ago

One minute on Wikipedia would have disabused you of that wrong notion: > If the joining of the words or signs is orthographically represented with a hyphen, the result is a hyphenated compound (e.g., must-have, hunter-gatherer). If they are joined without an intervening space, it is a closed compound (e.g., footpath, blackbird). If they are joined with a space (e.g. school bus, high school, lowest common denominator), then the result – at least in English – may be an open compound. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics)