Re: Rerender or re-render?

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

On the architectural modeling and rendering
forum I frequent, we generally do not hyphenate,
but in this setting the term "rerender" is not
misleading, puzzling, difficult to read or
ambiguous.  It is, however, a synonym for
any number of expletives when used with
exclamation points.  For example:

Render
Show rendering to client
Implement client changes.
Rerender.
Show new rendering to client.
Implement more client changes.
Rerender.
Show new rendering to client.
Implement still more client change.
Rerender!!!

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kathleen MacDowell" <kathleen -at- writefortheuser -dot- com>
To: "Chinell, David F (GE EntSol, Security)" <David -dot- Chinell -at- ge -dot- com>
Cc: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 6:50 AM
Subject: Re: Rerender or re-render?


> Hi David,
>
> You're right, it is a prefix--I thought about that just after I hit send.
>
> I just checked Chicago (14th ed), which says that nearly all
> compounds formed with "re" (and other prefixes) are closed. Exceptions
> include the following:
> --  if it's misleading or puzzling, use the hyphen
> --  if the word is not listed in the dictionary and it might be
> difficult to read or ambiguous, use the hyphen
>
> Regards,
>
> Kathleen
>
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 8:07 AM, Chinell, David F (GE EntSol,
> Security) <David -dot- Chinell -at- ge -dot- com> wrote:
>> Kathleen, I think you introduce a small confusion here. "Re" is not a
>> word, it's a prefix. Thus re-render, whether hyphenated or not is not a
>> compound.
>>
>> Bear
>>
>
>
> -- 
> Kathleen MacDowell
> www.writefortheuser.com
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