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Why do-you like-hyphens so-much?
Its a form of short hand in text stylization to emphasize words.
Think of it as when someone quickly bites off a word to drive a point.
Much like have someone would CAPITALIZE a word to over emphasize something as if raising one's voice.
Or italicize or put to help over enunciate a word as if to speak it slowly and with pressure on every syllable.
Short hand verbal text communication is literally the body language of text communication. Hell it's become so common place that many modern fiction novels now use it.
And just like any other language there's even dialectics to it. So while it can be somewhat confusing to wander into a different community online and see different symbols and formats being used they are almost instantly understandable if you understand whats happening.
Sorry, that's got nothing to do with it:
Thoughtshapes are themselves, & some are more "atomic", & others are more "molecular", & others are merely-associating.
I have to fight the urge to use "=" as double-hyphen, to indicate more-atomic, & "-" to indicate still-atomic-just-less, to try to communicate what thoughtshapes I'm meaning, & how their forms work/are.
Translating from thoughtshapes to English .. is clumsy-as-hell, breaks many meanings, & prevents entire categories of meaning from being expressible.
I've been told by multilingual-people that what I'm describing exactly matches their frustration with getting meanings from 1 language into another.
White psychology holds that there are only 3 innate-mind-languages: VAK..
but there are 4, at-least:
Each of those is mind-blind to things that the other kinds can see.
Temple Grandin did a TED Talk on exactly that, but didn't mention the abstract-shape cognizers, iirc.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=temple+grandin+ted
She COULDN'T have put the Fukushima-reactor emergency-generators at the bottom of pits, beside the ocean, because she would have SEEN that the tsunami that hit the building, which those generators were supposed to provide power after, would have drowned the things.
Obviously, non-visual-cognizers made that decision, mind-blind to the consequences, obliterating the usefulness of them.
From what I've been able to discover, abstract-shape cognizers are common only in physics.
There aren't many ( I've met 2 others, that I'm certain of: I asked them, because their thinking was so different from the VAK types ), & it seems to be the only place where such kind-of-mind has significant .. either advantage, or familiarity, not certain which.
So, TL;DR is:
using hyphens in trying to communicate which thoughtshapes are more-atomic, vs which are merely-associating, using the clumsiness of English's words & grammar/syntax/punctuation,
so you people can get the actual feel for the intended thoughtshapes, themselves.
( instead of the English-bound approximations of them )
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Its like hand claps.