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FourWinds
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Re: numinosity
Jan 14, 2006, 14:52
When I raised this with her her comment was, 'You can do a lot in German, but you can do more in English'

I think it boils down to the fact that in German you can join words easily (the original word for television being a great example), but it's not possible to say things like 'turn-on-and-off-able' or 'blogability'.
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