• lil_tank
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    9 months ago

    Every Germanic language can do it as well as Greenlandic

    That’s cool, didn’t know that!

    • fox [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      9 months ago

      Yeah, it’s called linguistic compounding. English is the odd one out here in the Germanic family since all of the others let you jam nouns together to create more specific nouns. You can do it in a lot of Asian languages too, and north American indigenous languages. Finnish and Russian.