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Re:Verlan: French slang that inverses words by candeira on Monday February 03, 2020 @07:34AM (#22223573)
In Spanish, if you ask "where from?" you'd say "¿De dónde?", which is also a triple composition.

The adverb "dónde" already has the preposition "de" embeded in it, as it comes from a condensation of Vulgar Latin "de unde", already meaning "from where". But Latin "unde" already is a composed form meaning "from where", and where the "-de" ending is not the preposition "de" but it's still a particle making "unde" a composed form...

So if you're Spanish and ask "¿De dónde?" you're asking

¿(from (from (where from)))?

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