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It'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
by mirimir 8y ago
It'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 ???