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Is that so different from "downsizing", "television", "textbook", "wallpaper", "motorbike", "grapefruit", "agoraphobia", "airport", "manslaughter", "candlestick

• thaumasiotes 6y ago
  The noun formation that people purport to mock in German is the same that English uses, as in your examples of "textbook", "motorbike", "grapefruit", "airport", "manslaughter", and "candlestick". It's unsurprising that German and English grammar would be identical in this respect, since the languages are extremely closely related. It's a little more surprising that so many English speakers seem to think the German words are hilarious; I assume they think so only because they were told to and never bothered to think about it. "Television" and "agoraphobia" are different; "downsizing" is less clear than the other examples.
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• nuker 6y ago
  Yup, Lebensabschnittpartner looks quite different from wallpaper.