MutantTailThing comments on A language like a set of building blocks.

[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago (7 children)

German is wild. Sometimes its like the spacebar was never invented and you get such beauties as Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaugabenübertragungsgesetz

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[–] Tenoteve@feddit.org 22 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Da fehlt ein f. :-)

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[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (1 child)

With the missing f it's now a law about the transfer of talents of meadows used for the supervision of the labeling of beef.

I'm not sure why they're supervising that on a meadow but the meadow is clearly very talented.

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[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 4 points 10 months ago

lemmygold.png

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[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

auFgaben

Scheisse!

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[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

After the invention of the spacebar, it took another three hundred years to invent the period.

https://www.matthiasbrinkmann.de/wordpress/2016/07/what-is-the-longest-sentence-in-kant/

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[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 8 points 10 months ago

But why separate the parts if it is one word

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[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 4 points 10 months ago

Some languages don't even have spaces. Writing systems are irrelevant formality and not exceptional at all. I prefer the lack of space for it clearly shows that that's a compound word

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