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saltcured
7 months ago
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In English, we're making a compound adjective so it would be very-old-growth tree.
It's one step short of the German compound noun, and we make it easier to find the fragments...
ronjakoi
7 months ago
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English is the only language I know of that allows spaces in compound words at all. It's a very peculiar feature of English orthography.
Timwi
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Mandarin written in pinyin comes to mind as another example. Do you discount that because pinyin is not the primary writing system used for that language?
ronjakoi
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Nah I just didn't know anything about Mandarin really
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It's one step short of the German compound noun, and we make it easier to find the fragments...