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While in German, jamming an adjective and a noun together to form a new compound word is still totally common. Apparently it was common in English, too? (I don'
by anyfoo 8y ago
While in German, jamming an adjective and a noun together to form a new compound word is still totally common. Apparently it was common in English, too? (I don't know enough about the common roots of the two languages.)
I just randomly mashed the words for "green" and "plate" together, and if I type the resulting "Grünplatte" into Google's image search, I see that LEGO had the same idea as me, apparently.
- jhanschoo 8y agoI'm quite sure that this way of deriving compound words is generally common among Germanic languages. On the other hand, Romance languages are more productive using standard prefixes and affixes. In English the putting two nouns together still exists, but the orthography is different: you write it as two words or with a hyphen in between, but the more common ones are written together. Loveseat, whorehouse, wheelbarrow, crankshaft, screwdriver, etc.