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As a German learning to write in English I had to constantly remind myself to keep my sentences short :)

• RyanMcGreal 17y ago
  Not to mention your words. English doesn't have nearly as ... robust a mechanism for generating compound words as German.
  • access_denied 17y ago
    “Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.” (Mark Twain) (I am German btw)
  • vlisivka 17y ago
    It has. Common prefix(es) + common (Latin) root(s) + common suffix(es).