• _Gandalf_the_Black_@feddit.de
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    10 months ago

    It’s true. In English we string words together instead of putting them into one word, so there’s not really much difference beyond the odd bit of morphology.

    • lugal@sopuli.xyz
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      10 months ago

      It’s not even really morphology but orthography. Sure, German has some binding morphemes but the man difference is that English uses spaces

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      10 months ago

      It does make a difference though. The long chains of words in English are kinda clumsy compared to the Swedish/German words. In practice this just leads to English using abbreviations more.

      • Trashboat
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        10 months ago

        I dunno, a lot of these German words I see I’d abbreviate the hell outta if I knew how