[thaumasiotes]

> English loves using compound words but only if the roots are sourced from Latin or Greek: words like electrocardiogram

This is false; English loves using compound words. One example of such a compound word is "fire department", which has identical syntax to the German compound "Feuerwehr". Whether a compound word is spelled with or without internal spaces is not a fact about the language, it's a fact about the spelling.

[bloppe]

You'd call it a noun phrase, not a compound word. Definitely splitting hairs at this point, but hey that's what gets me off.