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Well responded. Two (not entirely serious) counterarguments: - Lists like this - Abusing the char as em-dash - Weird languages. In German it's quite common
by darklajid 15y ago
Well responded.
Two (not entirely serious) counterarguments:
- Lists like this
- Abusing the char as em-dash
- Weird languages. In German it's quite common to use that character to shorten the monster words. Pulling samples from my reared (note the disclaimer about being not to serious)
Lebens- und Krankenversicherung
(Shorthand for Lebensversicherung und Krankenversicherung)
The inverse is possible, but less common as far as I am aware
Arbeitsplatz und -Umfeld
(Arbeitsplatz und Arbeitsumfeld?)
Looks ugly to me and the samples are pre-coffee, but this is definitely possible.
- celoyd 15y agoAll good points. I would say that lists like that are also abuse; the hyphens there ought to be · or something similar. But it certainly appears in the wild. (Similarly, in formal contexts, the negative sign is − and not -, but very few people care.) The last usage is also possible in English. A construction like “face-huggers and -eaters” is rare but not outlandish.