Explicit name
I am currently editing a book, in which one of the characters is called by the given name in all sorts of contexts. The author wants the book to be ‘kosher’ in terms of names, so for example, he is careful to write the name Adan-i.
As for the explicit name, he writes it in a doubling of the letters ‘Yee-hahahahahaha’ (this also illustrates the character’s ecstatic pronunciation).
The question is, do we have to put a hyphen there as I did, or does the mere doubling of the letters remove it from the category of the name of God?
(I’m not going into the issue of printing versus writing. From the writer’s perspective, it’s the same thing, and he wants the names to be ‘kosher’)
If you double the letters, it’s no longer there (although if there’s a “Yod” in the middle and a “A” after it, then maybe there’s room for a hyphen. You have to be careful with that). But it seems annoying to me. In my opinion, it’s better to write the name normally with a hyphen.
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