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saltcured
323 days ago
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
323 days ago
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.
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Timwi
322 days 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?
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ronjakoi
321 days ago
Nah I just didn't know anything about Mandarin really
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