• rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    It’s really not that different.

    German: Dampfschiffkapitän

    English: steam boat captain

    German, if compound words worked like in English: Dampf Schiff Kapitän

    English, if compound words worked like in German: steamboatcaptain

    • Kornblumenratte@feddit.org
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      31 minutes ago

      Well, English prefers genitive constructions, and rarely compounds more than two words, so native English speakers have trouble to parse words like Kindercarnavalsoptochtvoorbereidingswerkzaamhedencomitéleden, Speciallægepraksisplanlægningsstabiliseringsperiode or Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz, despite compounding being a core feature of Germanic languages, not only German. English just cought a severe case of French back in 1066…-