Exactly, and so many of us choose to learn german as a third foreign language (we have to choose a third one after english and danish) instead of romaniced languages like french and spanish because it is so much easier to learn, given our knowledge of Icelandic, danish and even english. It is structural and bound by strong and easy to memorize rules, so it is at least easier to pass tests in it. And it is somewhat cool, and germany has many quality engineering schools f.e. that many of our students go to for master degrees.
We have made many compounded words for new technologies and new concepts, often using old out of usage words also and created new words with old style structures to prevent words like computers, refrigerators (icebox is actually a compounded word similar in direct meaning as our word for it) and helicopters becoming part of everyday language here.
That’s very interesting. Thanks.