[8n4vidtmkvmk]

Tangential, how do you hyphenate (((very old) growth) tree)?

[saltcured]

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...

[ronjakoi]

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]

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]

Nah I just didn't know anything about Mandarin really

[gowld]

This sort of thing comes up often for me. I use extended hyphenation to declare precedence: very-old--growth tree.

[jodrellblank]

ancient-growth tree