A Kindler, gentler grammar Nazi

[MajGenl.Meade]

17 Dec 2014 The Times (South Africa)
Book removed for having too many hyphens
A BRITISH author spent £1 000 getting his book professionally edited only to have Amazon’s Kindle Store reject it because it contained too many hyphens.

Graeme Reynolds’s book High Moor 2: Moonstruck had been on sale since March 2013, and had received more than 100 positive reviews. So he was surprised when it was removed from sale this month due to poor punctuation.

Reynolds wrote on his blog: “What’s next? Will we start getting penalised for using words of more than two syllables? Is the semicolon headed for extinction?” — © The Daily Telegraph

[Big RR]

I can't imagine what might happen to poetry books if this sort of thing spreads.

[Guinevere]

Define "too-many-hyphens" please.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Emperor Kindle II: My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many hyphens, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect.

Reynolds: Which few did you have in mind, Your Amazon-ness?

[wesw]

perhaps he put all his prepositional phrases within hyphens? that always annoys me.