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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: Hyphenated adjectives revisited #23120 03/16/01 08:01 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 20 Maryland G garynamy stranger garynamy stranger G Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 20 Maryland 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 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Hyphenated adjectives revisited Rapunzel 03/16/01 05:45 PM Re: Hyphenated adjectives revisited garynamy 03/16/01 08:01 PM Re: Hyphenated adjectives revisited AnnaStrophic 03/16/01 08:43 PM Re: Hyphenated adjectives revisited Bobyoungbalt 03/16/01 09:12 PM Re: Hyphenated adjectives revisited belMarduk 03/17/01 11:11 PM Re: Hyphenated adjectives revisited Capital Kiwi 03/18/01 12:54 AM Re: Hyphenated adjectives revisited belMarduk 03/18/01 01:17 AM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,331 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 802 guests, and 1 robot. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 32 A C Bowden 15 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,542 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,916 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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