Many things we were told in school about the English language is not quite correct any more. E.g. use of concatenation to form new words.
@ralphholz English follows a progression: "a b" -> "a-b" -> "ab" if/when the term becomes common. But, not nearly as much merging as German.
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@BRIAN_____ German - and indeed several Northern Germanic languages, such as Swedish - use merged words by default. Split-up is wrong.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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