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Englishnewbie Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Information technology oriented?

Hello,

I want to develop an information technology-oriented system based on today's technological advances.

I want to develop an information-technology-oriented system based on today's technological advances.

Should I use only one hyphen or two here?

Thank you.
  

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Hi, I want to develop an inf ormation technology-oriented system based on today's technological advances. I want to develop an infor mation-technology-oriented syste m based on today's technological advances. Should I use only one hyphen or two here?

— Clive

  • Hi, I want to develop an inf ormation technology-oriented system based on today's technological advances.
  • I want to develop an infor mation-technology-oriented syste m based on today's technological advances.
  • Should I use only one hyphen or two here?
  • You'd need two, but the sentence starts to seem very awkward and cumbersome.
  • It's not good to string a lot of nouns together with hyphens.
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Hi,
I want to develop an information technology-oriented system based on today's technological advances.

I want to develop an information-technology-oriented system based on today's technological advances.

Should I use only one hyphen or two here? You'd need two, but the sentence starts to seem very awkward and cumbersome. It's not g
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My opinion is that you do not need either hyphen since "information technology" is a specific field generally written as two words without a hyphen, and if you hyphenate between technology and oriented you lose the link of information to technology by binding technology to oriented which would be incorrect. However, I would suggest rewriting this entire sentence since it is very awkward."I want
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