In article <slr### [at] tealhhjpat>, 
hjp### [at] SiKituwsracat (Peter J. Holzer) wrote:

> Fahrt		- passage

Err...


> The Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaft (DDSG for short) really exists.
> Building even longer words from that is a favorite sport among Autrian
> school children (or at least it was when I was 10 or so). 
> Austrian bureaucrats are of course even more successful at building long
> words. A few months ago I read about some regulation with a similar
> length as my "DDSG captain's visor color regulation". Unfortunately I
> can't remember what it was about.

It sounds like German simply has a looser definition of "word". In 
english, that would simply be divided up into each of it's parts, and 
the whole called a "title" or something, while in German the words seem 
to be concatenated into one with little or no modification.

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