RE: Rerender or re-render?

["Boudreaux, Madelyn (GE Healthcare, consultant)" <Madelyn -dot- Boudreaux -at- ge -dot- com>]

Late to the game here, sorry...

I'd think that re-render is slightly preferable to avoid confusion. I
don't think rerender might be confused for rearender, but because there
are so few distinct letters (r, e, d and n), it's hard to type, hard to
read, and may be confused with other forms of 'render'. (Compare to:
remember and rememberer. Granted, that moves the confusion to the end of
the word, but the issue is the same: our eyes -- especially the eyes of
someone slightly older -- may miss the distinction.)

A reader may have to go back and double-check: "Was that 'render' or
'RE-render,' or 'renderer' or 'rendered'?" The inclusion of the hyphen
takes away the need to go back. 


But then, why do you need to RE-render? Isn't every rendering a distinct
step and a complete rendering? Why not use "render again," or "render a
second time," or just "render" for the subsequent renderings?

I suspect that if you have to use this repeatedly throughout a document,
it might get wordy. Just food for thought... 

Sincerely,
Madelyn Boudreaux

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Subject: RE: Rerender or re-render?


David,

Thanks for your thoughts.  I am inclining more and more towards solid.
I think when I first encountered the word, I wasn't comfortable enough
with it myself.  Our audience, on the other hand, is well accustomed to
it.

Your example of an exception to using hyphens with prefixes (and
particularly with "re") is a good one, akin to the difference between
"re-cover" and "recover."  I was looking for another one of these. 
Thanks!


Odile





At 11:37 AM -0400 9/24/08, Chinell, David F (GE EntSol, Security) wrote:
>Odile:
>
>I would set it solid. It's not a clear decision, though. In my shop, we

>try to establish general guidelines with limited exceptions, and 
>setting prefixes solid is one of our guidelines. As an example of an 
>exception, we hyphenate re-sound (meaning to sound again). While 
>resound is a valid
>(dictionary) word, it is so strongly associated with the wrong meaning 
>(reverberate), that it proved a stumbling point to all our internal 
>readers.
>
>I grant Beth's example of confusion (rear-ender) is horrendous, but I 
>don't find it likely enough in context to warrant making an exception.
>
>Anyway, I vote for solid.
>
>Bear

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