(May 23, 2013 at 12:38 pm)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote: Because that'd be mighty speciesist. Perhaps you might consider the strength of the hyphen?That's a bit cerebral, as they say in Aikido, not everything gets improved by thinking it all the way through.
(May 23, 2013 at 12:38 pm)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote: The hyphen looks like this: -Gee, thanks, I'll forever be in your debt!
Maybe consider that for some people English is not their first language. We have no use for the mighty hyphen in my native language, German, we just combine the words without inefficient extra lines in between:
Donaudampfschifffahrtskapitaensmuetzenaufhaengung!
Oh yeah! And that's already sparing you the äöüß!
"Men see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages — except their own!" — Ernest Crosby.
