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>Interesting that German is less "flexible" in some ways than English,
even
>though English derives from German. German and English do share the
ability
>to string together words to form a kind of compound noun. In English the
>words usually remain separated (for example, "tire tread depth gauge"),
but
>in German they are usually squashed together (for example,
>"arbeitslosefursorge" - not sure of that spelling).
Another thing I've always found interesting about German is that it
capitalizes all nouns. None of these "is this noun a proper name"
arguments that we have to put up with in English (cf the "web" vs.
"Web" thread of a couple months ago). Maybe all these engineers and
marketers who so liberally sprinkle capitalized common nouns in their
writing are unconsiously harking back to the German roots of English???
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