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Or just brainrot. It'll win at the end. Hitting that spacebar is effort.

• fooqux 2y ago
  Yes, many words that started out as two words separated by a hyphen merge to become one as language evolves. Notebook is a good example of this; a more recent example would be email.
  • xanderlewis 2y ago
    In German it happens even more quickly.
    • teractiveodular 2y ago
      I thought you only used hyphens in German in exceptional circumstances like proper names in compounds? Karl-Marx-Allee etc.
      • xanderlewis 2y ago
        Well, what I meant was that concepts made up of several words almost immediately become one word in German (without hyphens).