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Well, this only connects tangentially, but Germans are notorious for building formidable nouns as massive compound words, with no hyphens at all, like "geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung" for speed limit.
I think they may do the same thing with verbs, but alas, German 101 was a long time ago....gs
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