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by bashkiddie 400 days ago
Awesome example.

Germans are allowed to write compound nouns in hyphens

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It’s not considered prescriptively correct, but often nowadays people just write them with spaces (like in English), especially on phones, because hitting spacebar makes spellcheck/autocorrect kick in.
Which is a combination of lisp-case and CamelCase. Neat!