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As a Swede I also do all of these things. And it doesn't feel like anything special, I imagine hundreds of thousands of people do the same.
by sandos 6mo ago
As a Swede I also do all of these things. And it doesn't feel like anything special, I imagine hundreds of thousands of people do the same.
- vidarh 6mo agoYeah, I'm Norwegian, and maybe the Scandinavian languages makes us extra likely to make those mistakes, but overall English hyphen rules to a large extent boils down to feels. Words "graduate" to hyphens over time as and when they start to become seen as a unit, and then sometimes eventually fuse into words. E-mail to email is one of those. And that pipeline is also not uniform geographically so different English speakers will disagree about what should have hyphens where and when...