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I'd say it was probably worse in this respect, doesn't German have a lot more of these "compound" words that would need to be parsed in this way?
by SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
I'd say it was probably worse in this respect, doesn't German have a lot more of these "compound" words that would need to be parsed in this way?
- wil421 8y agoExactly, car insurance is much better than Kraftfahrzeug-Haftpflichtversicherung.
- Quai 8y agoIf you want to make German look bad, sure, but a "better" translation of car insurance would be Autoversicherung. I mean, "car insurance" is much better than "motor vehicle liability insurance" too.. ;-)
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoI know there's still a difference in length, but don't let English orthography fool you, English likes big compounds too: "high voltage electricity grid systems engineer team supervisor" is structurally the same as the unspaced German monstrous compounds. (I.e. the real difference between English and German in this area is just a matter of orthography and not actual linguistic structure.)