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• @aspensmonster@tenforward.social 2026-07-25 17:36

  @wikidata@wikis.world Cool tool! However, I find myself confused on the hyphenation tasks. I thought that hyphenation and syllabification were two different things. I thought that hyphenation was a typography concern and syllabification was related to phonology. But the hyphenation task references this hyphenation property: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5279 which defines hyphenation as "positions where a word can be hyphenated" and yet, in the "also known as" column, includes the term "syllabification". Which is it? For example, the word "Japanology". For hyphenation, I would leave "ology" as a phonological suffix, and the only hyphen would be between "Japan" and "ology". "Japan‧ology". I've always heard that hyphenation is more a matter of taste than a strict set of rules. But for syllabification, I would want the number of syllables to equal the number of vowel sounds (five). So syllabification would look something like "Ja‧pan‧ol‧o‧gy". Though frankly, it seems that there are a whole bunch of rules for syllabification that I either was never taught in school or have thoroughly forgot. Dropping some linguistics-related tags below to see if I can nerd-snipe anybody into providing more authoritative and/or helpful commentary. #english #grammar #syntax #morphology #phonology #linguistics

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