> It's because the German language is highly compound. Take any descriptive phrase, remove the spaces, and you have a new word. Like Sanskrit. Also, in Sanskri

> It's because the German language is highly compound. Take any descriptive phrase, remove the spaces, and you have a new word. Like Sanskrit. Also, in Sanskrit, many words have multiple meanings, so when you string them together, there is often (somewhat of) a combinatorial explosion of overall meanings.