- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:07:18 -0500
- To: Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- Cc: CE Whitehead <cewcathar@hotmail.com>, kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp, addison@lab126.com, kennyluck@w3.org, www-style@w3.org, www-international@w3.org
Ambrose LI scripsit: > (And you are right that even in English you can’t really hyphenate > between any two syllables; from what I’ve read neither can you do so > in French.) However, at least in French there is a mechanical definition of "syllable" which does not depend on pronunciation: "lune", for example, has two syllables for orthographic purposes even though it is pronounced with only one. That is not the case in English, and what is more, different Englishes have different hyphenation rules: AmE represen-tative vs. BrE represent-ative. -- I marvel at the creature: so secret and John Cowan so sly as he is, to come sporting in the pool cowan@ccil.org before our very window. Does he think that http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Men sleep without watch all night?
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