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It may be less-acceptable to combine words in English, but that doesn’t stop me from doing it when it feels right. I use hyphens, though, to help with clarity.
by meristohm 5y ago
It may be less-acceptable to combine words in English, but that doesn’t stop me from doing it when it feels right. I use hyphens, though, to help with clarity. If enough people use the same hyphenated word the hyphen might be dropped. From what little I know of German (Pimsleur CDs, then about three months around the country), it does seem to accommodate these combinations better than English does. Is it okay that languages change over time? If so, how do they change?
- quench 5y agoLook at English. US vs UK vs Australia vs South Africa. These were all once the same language. Cypriot Greek is another good example with some millennia of divergence. It amuses me when we brits complain about US spelling when in some cases it’s we that changed and not North America.