Eliminating hyphens is some linguistic fashion pandemic.
I would pronounce both of those the same out loud, I read both of those the same in my mind. Hyphens in places like that are a piece of punctuation that provide no real extra information or purpose, but clutter the sentence with symbols.
Punctuation exists to provide missing information to a reader. What information do hyphens provide in that situation that is necessary for me or other readers to understand what the commenter intended?
Everything before the word "but" is typically disingenuous.
> I would pronounce both of those the same out loud, I read both of those the same in my mind.
This is a bald-faced lie. :) Hyphenated words and idioms are often pronounced faster.
> Hyphens in places like that are a piece of punctuation that provide no real extra information or purpose, but clutter the sentence with symbols.
They're not symbols, they're punctuation. They indicate rate-of-speech and semantic boundaries.
if i write text like this it is very annoying also you cannot tell where one thought ends and another begins do you really want to live in such a shitty world
ifiwritetextlikethisitisveryannoyingalsoyoucannottekkwhereonethiughtendsandanitherbeginsdoyourreallywantoliveinsuchashittyworld
Hyphens also serve as affordances to cue the reader to the presence of familiar idioms rather than impose additional cognitive load onto them after the fact.
They also serve as affordances to cue the reader to the presence of familiar idioms rather than impose additional cognitive load onto them after-the-fact.
They also serve as affordances to cue the reader to the presence of familiar idioms rather than impose additional cognitive load onto them after. the. fact.
Perhaps users of a language should learn the rules and conventions before throwing them away simply because they don't understand them?