Agree with #1. Those are just two adjectives, like "red or yellow cars"; no need for any dashes, let alone hyphens.

Thanks hbberlin for the quick reaction.

The tutorials for the German language often declare the use of diverse symbols as “optional”, in other cases as “forbidden”. I tend to omit them, where they are not mandatory; so I understand that this is one of those cases.

TY.

Re #2: Yes. Dashes. Even if they are in this case the same symbol, that's the word I was looking for! Monday brain fog, I guess.

No I meant German and hoped to present an analogy. Everything I try may fail. Miserably.

And may continue to do so.

oops, dann schreib doch auf Deutsch, dann gibt es weniger Potential für Missverständnisse.

@penguin: In solchen konkreten Fällen bin ich durchaus in der Lage auch in Deutsch Identisches zu leisten. Nein, was hier fehlt, ist Kontinuität. Man kann mir den Vorwurf machen, mich in diversen Foren und Diskussionsplattformen zu verheddern und dann nicht mehr zu wissen, wo ich gerade bin.

Ich passe besser auf, zukünftig.

#4 Similar-looking symbols, but not the same ones, to be picky :) Dashes are longer than hyphens.

Hyphen:

What a good-looking man!

Dash:

UK: synonyms for English – or German – expressions

US: synonyms for English—or German—expressions

meaning: synonyms for English (or German) expressions

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hyphen

en dash

em dash