More Thursday spam about compound words

[superbadgirl]

What is up with people suddenly splitting compound words? I see it with greater frequency these days.

Somehow becomes some how.
Background becomes back ground.
Bittersweet becomes bitter sweet.
Intact becomes ... oh, wait, that's not a compound word, it's just one people think is and split it up into in tact for reasons I still haven't figured out. Intact is one word!

Believe it or not, putting in a space really does change the meaning sometimes. Or is that some times?

Comments

[ozreison.livejournal.com]

What irks me is the dropping of hyphens for smooshing bits of words together.

No power in the verse can convince me that "cooperative" is the correct spelling. It just looks... weird.

(Sorry, two thoughts got combined there for a moment. Don't mean to spam!)

[superbadgirl]

As for me, I'm not overly fond of hyphens. :)

[scarlettslegacy.livejournal.com]

My spell checker picks up compound words and seperates them - I keept having to add a word to the dictionary that are real words!

[superbadgirl]

LOL.

*cough*spellchecker*cough*