• werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldBanned
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    5 months ago

    How a normal Mexican American misunderstands via conversations with actual Germans…say you got an avocado… Now add salt, its a saltiavocado. Add vinegar, its a saltyvinegaravocado. Now step on it while running and you just “slippedonavinegaravocado” or you had an “avocadoslip”.

    I call bullshit. Bullshit doesn’t come.

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      5 months ago

      English has large compounds like this too, we just usually add spaces and/or hyphens so it doesn’t look quite as extreme when written out.

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        5 months ago

        We tend to limit it to two words most of the time, and most compound words in English are Germanic in origin.

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          Well yeah I didn’t think about that but that’s usually true for the roots. The crazier ones I’m thinking of are with stacked prefixes/suffixes.