Grammar

[erfan_starled]

When do numbers have hyphens? Anyone know?

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[keiliss]

This is what I've always done... don't know if there are alternate methods/styles
http://wps.ablongman.com/long_faigley_penguinhb_1/0,7325,506243-,00.html

[erfan_starled]

Thank you! This link seems useful. Pleased to have it.

[jaiden_s]

It's generally used for numbers between 21 and 99.

[erfan_starled]

Thanks! I had no idea...

[morethmusing]

The eleventy-one question...

As J. said, I'd use a hyphen from twenty-one to ninety-nine. And I have one hundred and twenty-one.

I will point out here that my english grammar sucks! Can I answer this question in Ancient Greek?

[erfan_starled]

I would love you to answer in Ancient Greek. Do they have hyphens? *Interested* And do you do all the letters? Do they have numbers in base ten?

[morethmusing]

Do they have hyphens? Not quite like ours - it was a curved link... And the semicolon was a question mark. Something that has f*cked up my usage of semi-colons ever since...

Numbers in base ten? Yes indeed. Although they didn't have arabic numerals, they were top-notch on maths. See here :D

Do I pass?

[erfan_starled]

What a gorgeous site - that's a wonderful page of numerical info. How satisfying! Or it would be if I didn't know Hypatia's story :|

I was going to wax lyrical to you about Sumeria but decided I could not reliably spell it :| Wasn't in the mood to check it. I love the idea of squiggly hyphens. There's a children's story from which "Big S, little s, p, g and squiggle' is a quote. Actually about English but apt, I thought.

Question mark for semi-colon? F*cked up? I empathise utterly: after betaing for a Swedish friend (fewer apostrophes than English, more than Latin), my own apostrophes went on a sympathy strike and have been in a state of rebellion ever since. I can no longer write 's' without a putting an apos'trophe in, s'ee? lol. It's a curse, I say, the curse of the Swede :|

You passed with flying colours. Of course :D

[aglarien1]

Jaiden's correct - but there's some other really good info here.
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/copyXediting/Hyphens.html
I'm forever reading punctuation rules just for the heck of it.

[erfan_starled]

Thanks! I'm bookmarking this link, which has got so much more in it than I expected.

[erfan_starled]

You leave me wanting to do a little world-wandering and see what numbers were like in different places. Thanks :)