Re: Compounded compounds.
| From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 29, 2007, 18:33 |
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Hallo!
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:55:27 +0100, Jeff Rollin wrote:
> Of course German is also famous for "arbitrarily-sized compounds" -
> Bundesverfassungsgericht "Federal Constitutional Court", &c.
That's not even unusual in German. Even a word like
_Bundesverfassungsgerichtsprozessaktenarchivbenutzungsordnung_
'Federal Constitutional Court Proceedings Files Archive usage terms'
would be possible and readily understandable. Or, the famous
_Donaudampfschifffahrtskapitänsanwärteruniformknopf_
'Danube steam shipping captain apprentice uniform button'.
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