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Re:Why the German language has so many great words by ekianjo on Friday March 11, 2016 @08:12PM (#11270767)
It's still nothing but a combination of other words without space in between.

In Japanese (or Chinese), do you consider that mixing kanji together to form a more complicated word is something unusual ? It's very much the same concept as what Germans do.

Nothing new, really.

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Re:Why the German language has so many great words by kuschku on Saturday March 12, 2016 @08:02AM (#11272691)
Well, english doesn’t have participal construction of nouns. German does.

Any verb can be, by adding a prefix, converted into a noun meaning "he/she/it who does".

And you can similarly convert nouns into verbs.

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