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Not exactly... I wouldn't say. Unless porkinspectorsofficepenmakerdeclensionsufferer would be a normal composition in English. Just with spaces in between them.
by jacobush 8y ago
Not exactly... I wouldn't say. Unless porkinspectorsofficepenmakerdeclensionsufferer would be a normal composition in English. Just with spaces in between them.
- SilasX 8y agoI do see native speakers string together noun phrases like that, with the spakes. e.g. "Fast downvote suppression throttler".
- mirimir 8y agoIt's shorter than the unpacked equivalent "throttler for the suppression of fast downvotes". And more importantly, it's less ambiguous when you're writing long sentences.
- SilasX 8y agoI wasn’t disputing its usefulness. I was saying that it’s just like these agglutinative languages, except it has the convention of writing them with spaces.
- dmitriid 8y agoThe differeyis that the morphemes you add at the end are the same for all words. It’s not just stringing several words together.
- SilasX 8y agoBut those morpheme suffixes are functionally the same as modifier words (like in English) but with the convention of not writing spaces.
- dmitriid 8y agoIt’s not the same as writing “table tennis table”, for example. It’s having all of prepositions (of, at, in, on...), and part modifiers (such as -ness, -ly, -ing...) nearly ininetly composable by adding them to the end of the word.
- mirimir 8y agoFor agglutinative languages, would it it like ... throttler forthesuppression offastdownvotes ... or ... forthesuppressionoffastdownvotesthrottler ... or ... fastdownvotesuppressionthrottler ???