Germanic languages are very well suited to these kinds of compound words because you can pretty much keep adding words - hence the many jokes about ridiculously

Germanic languages are very well suited to these kinds of compound words because you can pretty much keep adding words - hence the many jokes about ridiculously long German ones - where in many other languages if you want to add precision you use a phrase instead, or rely on context... You can do that in Norwegian too, but we tend to be a bit more shy about it than the Germans...