On 11/19/2012 5:52 PM, Lindy Mayfield wrote:
that is for me a funny example, but not at all extreme. German has a lot of compound words that have no spaces. Finnish, too. My example was a single "word" but I could have made it longer by compounding it.
I searched for "longest words" on Wikipedia, and found a few eye openers. In analogy with your Finnish compounding, they have a Turkish example. And they note that longer words are possible if you consider technical terms and numbers.
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