Re: Rerender or re-render?

[Odile Sullivan-Tarazi <odile -at- mindspring -dot- com>]

Perish the thought . . . I think that one would call for a rewrite.


Thanks for the vote,


Odile

(You would really hyphenate "re-release"?  MW Collegiate and AH 4th 
both show it solid.  I still prefer the hyphen in "co-op" as well, 
particularly when it's abbreviated like that.  Oherwise, I find 
myself thinking of chickens . . . )




At 11:18 AM -0400 9/24/08, Beth Agnew wrote:

>I too vote for hyphenation. Our goal is always to make things clear and
>easy for the reader. Writing re-render clearly helps the reader more
>than rerender (rear-ender!). Heck, I still hyphenate co-operative.
>It keeps the reader from snagging on coop-erative. Now, if you were
>getting into a situation where you had a co-operative re-release of a
>re-rendering engine, you might want to just rethink it all. :-)
>--Beth
>
>Odile Sullivan-Tarazi wrote:
>
>>Well, no, it's not in the dictionary.  Perhaps too new a term?  Not
>>commonly used in the general language?
>>
>>But I mean, in terms of general principles, would you hyphenate it or
>>not?  I'd thought perhaps so because of the double "re" at the
>>beginning of the word, but I see "rerelease" in AH.  MW's not much
>>help, unless I'm missing something in my haste.  A Google search
>>turns up the solid form in common use.  But these are all manner of
>>blogs and casual discussions.  I haven't had a chance to diligently
>>search published sources.
>>
>--
>Beth Agnew, Professor
>Co-ordinator, Technical Communication Program
>Seneca College of Applied Arts & Technology
>Toronto, ON
>416-491-5050 x3133
>http://www.senecatechcomm.com
>
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