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Comment by saltcured

2 days ago

In English, we're making a compound adjective so it would be very-old-growth tree.

It's one step short of the German compound noun, and we make it easier to find the fragments...

English is the only language I know of that allows spaces in compound words at all. It's a very peculiar feature of English orthography.

  • Mandarin written in pinyin comes to mind as another example. Do you discount that because pinyin is not the primary writing system used for that language?