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Tangential, how do you hyphenate (((very old) growth) tree)?

• saltcured 1y ago
  In English, we're making a compound adjective so it would be very-old-growth tree. It's one step short of the German compound noun, and we make it easier to find the fragments...
  • ronjakoi 1y ago
    English is the only language I know of that allows spaces in compound words at all. It's a very peculiar feature of English orthography.
    • Timwi 1y ago
      Mandarin written in pinyin comes to mind as another example. Do you discount that because pinyin is not the primary writing system used for that language?
      • ronjakoi 1y ago
        Nah I just didn't know anything about Mandarin really
• jodrellblank 1y ago
  ancient-growth tree
• gowld 1y ago
  This sort of thing comes up often for me. I use extended hyphenation to declare precedence: very-old--growth tree.