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saltcured
11mo ago
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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...
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ronjakoi
11mo ago
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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
10mo 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
10mo ago
Nah I just didn't know anything about Mandarin really
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