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wieson@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

The other commenters have already explained it diligently, but I wanted to hop on for something related.

As a German speaker, it actually irritates me a little, that English doesn’t agglutinate. Let’s take the word “gum ball machine”.

Which is it? It’s a machine. So are “gum” and “ball” descriptors of “machine”? Well no, they’re all nouns. But they’re not all subjects or objects of a sentence. They’re one subject together. But they’re not written together.

If I had a red gum ball machine, is it a red machine made out of gum that produces balls? Ok, it can also be spelt gumball machine. But that’s still multiple words per concept.

I like my nouns to be one word if it’s one thing and one subject.

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