any reason that, when doing on screen lyrics, you break them up by word instead of syllables?
sure. the best reason for me to choose to show the whole word instantly instead of one syllable at a time would be: if i think the single-syllable way would look like crap. Generally i've experimented with a wide range of methods and timings for expressing lyrics on screen, and i'm usually going for what is most potent. timing is essential, so indeed i've tried the single-syllable way, but it almost always looks terrible and actually less potent, probably because we're so used to reading the words the way they are. by a similar token, sometimes in fact single-words is too awkward also, so i sometimes opt for entire phrases. i'm often pretty exhaustive in the amount of ways i try it, in search of the  most effective