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Re:Username ending with MIME type format is not allowed by pastage on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @04:40AM (#28536714)
This is interesting because compounds are mostly written together in other languages.

Never thought about it but file extension name really is a word. Someone replied saying this is three words, but it is not is it? It's an open compound word or maybe a "set phrase", I wanted to call it an idiomatic expression but that was clearly wrong.

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Re:Username ending with MIME type format is not allowed by hunter2_ on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @09:58AM (#28539098)
The Wikipedia articles for "Set phrase" [0] and "Compound (linguistics)" [1] actually don't offer much of a distinction, so it's hard to say which of those is correct. Regardless, a compound with spaces ("open," as you said) is multiple words, not one word.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_phrase

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics)

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