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by jimmywanger 3530 days ago
> You encounter a lot of long, composite words ("Doppelkupplungsgetriebe" or "Motorsteuerungseinheit") for which the language is already famous for.

Understood, but I was more addressing the sense of cultural isolation a lot of Chinese PhD students feels. It means a lot when you can have a decent conversation or joke around with coworkers, living in a cone of silence doesn't help.