Talk:Intermediate direction

Is it Southeast or South-East?

I always though it was more correct to write it as South-East, at least it seems more logical to me that way, doesn't it?

Writing it as Southeast just bothers me. It's placing too much emphasis on the South part, even though it's even between South and East, hence, East should also be capitalized.. and the hyphen seems to illustrate the equivalency of the word.. it looks more like an equation, visually. Also, Southeast might not be pronounced correctly or understood that it's supposed to be pronounced "South-East", with a very subtle pause in between the words. The same goes for all of the other directions.. ie: North-West, etc.

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the debate was: Moved to a different location (Intermediate direction).—jiy (talk) 10:44, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Ordinal directions → Ordinal direction: Singular is preferred over plural.—jiy (talk) 11:34, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Support—jiy (talk) 11:34, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. I've always heard of them as "intermediate directions". Georgia guy 02:41, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Result
No consensus. I hope this discussion will continue, and some authorities will be cited. As a sailor myself, I find the subject fascinating. Andrewa 10:22, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Georgia guy had already moved the article from Ordinal directions to Intermediate directions while the move request was still open. My original intent with the move was simply to remove the plural (I have since moved Intermediate directions to Intermediate direction), so the request is no longer relevent. Based on Google, "intermediate direction(s)" does in fact seem to be used more than "ordinal direction(s)", though I am not sure this topic deserves its own article (perhaps it can be merged somewhere?)—jiy (talk) 10:44, 28 December 2005 (UTC)


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