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TonyB wrote:
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> >Gesellschaft - company
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> "Gemeinschaft". What does that mean? I saw it in my sociology book.
Union, community, collective, etc.
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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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On Sat, 13 May 2000 18:51:14 -0500, Chris Huff wrote:
>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.
Yes. German (like Finnish :-) allows building almost infinitely long
words, where in English you would use a phrase of many words. However,
English allows building of longer words from shorter words, too:
"raytracer" is just as common as "ray tracer", and it's "football"
not "foot ball". In general, the English language seems to avoid long
words. You can see this with adjectives, too: The comparative of
"easy" is "easier" (one slightly longer word), but the comparative
of "complicated" is "more complicated" (two words) instead of
"complicateder".
hp
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