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Compound words are common too in English. They're really just treated as new words, there isn't a real reason to syntactically split them. German does have so
by Tobani 10y ago
Compound words are common too in English. They're really just treated as new words, there isn't a real reason to syntactically split them. German does have some more comical examples though. My favorite was an archaic german book we had in highschool that for "typing" used the word, "schreibmachineschreiben" which is literally "write-machine-writing." It looks like the modern word is "Tippen."