Board Thread:Chinese and Korean VOCALOID discussion/@comment-28230104-20160419053957

I've noticed something with a lot of transcriptions of Korean songs, mainly in the KPOP circle. It's come to my attention that hyphens are rarely, if ever, used in romanized lyrics.

I have yet to come across one that actually uses hyphens. A few examples;

- Already Go Lady (Mintty)

- Someday (IU)

- LOSER (BIG BANG)

- Hopefully Sky (Jeong Eunji)

In a number of recent romanizations of popular songs, you don't see any hyphens anywhere, and that's true for each site I've visited. I've looked through multiple songs on each site to make sure, and didn't find any hyphens.

According to the Wikipedia page for the Revized Romanization of Korean, it says using a hyphen is optional, and addresses the issue of the organization and being able to differentiate words;

"A  hyphen optionally disambiguates syllables:  가을  →  ga-eul (fall; autumn) versus  개울  →  gae-ul'' (stream). However, few official publications make use of this provision since actual instances of ambiguity among names are rare." ''

There are also some points brought up on where it can be used, but not required to use.

Personally, I wouldn't mind losing the hyphen, because I believe it makes pages look cleaner and uniform. At the very least, use it less. It's not that difficult to tell how to pronounce words based on romaja, especially when listening to the song. That, and Hangul can be referenced if someone's unsure whether it's pronounced one way or the other.

I've gone through multiple song pages and removed hyphens many times, so I wanted to give a little context here as to why I do. If possible, I'd like for admins to consider the removal of hyphens, or at least a majority of them. It would make pages look cleaner, more organized, and be more in sync with romanizations used with other Korean songs outside of VOCALOID.

Thanks!  