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I'm not sure it's that, because German adapts to new concepts easily by simply concatenating old ones. The most popular example is probably "Doppelkupplungsgetr
by bad_alloc 12y ago
I'm not sure it's that, because German adapts to new concepts easily by simply concatenating old ones. The most popular example is probably "Doppelkupplungsgetriebe", which stands for dual-clutch transmission. This means you can get along with a few primitives but on the other hand you get some obscenely long words. You find a lot of those in the legal sector, like "Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz" which was the name of an actual law controlling how beef is labeled.
- WildUtah 12y agoGerman -- especially in organic chemistry -- is one of the very last languages that still maintains dominance in the face of English in a major scientific discipline. So if German has some quality similar to English, that could still be part of what makes a language gain dominance in a field.