Hans Forbrich wrote:
>>Cool! And in English, we've adopted a few German words ... like the
>>Southern California fast-food chain, der Wienerschnitzel ... they need a
>>very long building to display their name. Why do Germans feel compelled
>>to string a dozen words together into one word? <vbg> Hopefully, my
>
>
> Because it's much simpler.
>
> You take the paragraph that describes an object, trim white space and
> capitalize. Then you don't need to spend any time teaching what the new
> thing is - it basically comes with a built-in definition & possibly even a
> built-in manual.
>
> One negative side effect ... we (of German background) do tend to be verbose
> and go on and on and .......
>
Patentzuckerluxusbonbonmitedelholzhandgriffe...
Hauptstaatseisenbahnknotenpunkthinundherschieber...
Grossrechner, schnittstelle, Datenverarbeitungsanlage
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Regards, Frank van Bortel
Received on Thu Apr 10 2003 - 13:01:50 CDT
