To: sionnsar; Monkey Face; Tax-chick
"... could be interesting -- starting right out I've got over 17000 characters including spaces (it appears the Germans size articles by characters, not words) and the limit is 5000, so not only only is there a change of focus but a LOT of cutting." In a way, it now makes sense that German words run to such length. They leave out the spaces. Wirklichkeit.
We were lucky. We learned to add Latin and Greek prefixes and suffixes instead of whole words or English would be even more like German than it is.
Halt.
961 posted on
12/09/2008 5:11:37 PM PST by
NicknamedBob
(When in the course of human events, if you can't swim, at least dog-paddle.)
To: NicknamedBob; sionnsar
962 posted on
12/09/2008 5:15:35 PM PST by
Tax-chick
(If I can't go to Heaven right now, can I just go to Missouri?)
To: NicknamedBob
Oh yes, agglutination. That would make sense.
However, stop signs in Germany say "STOP".
967 posted on
12/09/2008 5:29:47 PM PST by
sionnsar
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