--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Karin Montin <kmontin@...> wrote:
>
> Hyphens are typically joiners, not stoppers. But if we started debating
> hyphen usage, we'll never get anywhere in our discussion of noir and hb. ;)
>
Agreed. For several years I have been doing without hyphens and I have yet to write something ambiguous. I conclude that they are unnecessary. I'm fine writing well matched or wellmatched instead of well-matched. Readers aren't stupid.
It lookes like double barreled pen names aren't common in hardboiled and noir. Can you imagine a mean streets story written by Wilbur Speedington-Smythe?
mrt
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