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bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 month agoEnglish has large compounds like this too, we just usually add spaces and/or hyphens so it doesn’t look quite as extreme when written out.
Comment on Learning a new language is easy!
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 month agoEnglish has large compounds like this too, we just usually add spaces and/or hyphens so it doesn’t look quite as extreme when written out.
samus12345@lemm.ee 1 month ago
We tend to limit it to two words most of the time, and most compound words in English are Germanic in origin.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well yeah I didn’t think about that but that’s usually true for the roots. The crazier ones I’m thinking of are with stacked prefixes/suffixes.