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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It does make a difference though. The long chains of words in English are kinda clumsy compared to the Swedish/German words. In practice this just leads to English using abbreviations more.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I dunno, a lot of these German words I see I’d abbreviate the hell outta if I knew how

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

All of the ones here are kinda extreme. Most words are alot shorter