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Furthermore, what is a single word anyway? Many alphabet based languages make this easy with spaces, but the multiple characters of Chinese and kana make it eas
by z2 10y ago
Furthermore, what is a single word anyway? Many alphabet based languages make this easy with spaces, but the multiple characters of Chinese and kana make it easy to stack things without ever using a space to break it into distinct parts. So of course Japanese is capable of generating really long and therefore unique "words".
- r-w 10y agoSame with German. But even there, there are connotations surrounding those compound words that are lost in translation to English.