This is a minor quibble as I largely agree, but > In German you can combine more freely, and people will more ofen than not, get it immediately too. It could

This is a minor quibble as I largely agree, but > In German you can combine more freely, and people will more ofen than not, get it immediately too. It could be true but I'm sceptical, I reckon tht in most languages you can change things on the fly and people will get it. For example, the next comment down from yours has this: > I suppose in English it's an updowngrade? All you'd need is the context and pretty much everyone would get it. You may say that context is the difference but doesn't everything in English need a bit of context?[1] (I'm also a bit sceptical of the context thing too though!:) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_context_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_context_culture