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This. German merges words together as their modifier mechanism, whereas English just uses word order to indicate modification. Since it's technically _not_ ille
by Conan_Kudo 9y ago
This. German merges words together as their modifier mechanism, whereas English just uses word order to indicate modification. Since it's technically _not_ illegal in English to hyphenate to do the same thing, German speakers tend to do this for English.
It's a very hard habit for them to break. :)
- xxpor 9y agoOne could argue that technically nothing's illegal in English, since there's no governing body, just what's in common use. Kind of like civil vs common law too, now that I think about it :)