On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:38:49 +0200, Tim C. wrote:
>On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:01:55 -0500, erilar
> wrote:
>
>>In article ,
>> Tim C. wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:28:21 -0500, erilar
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> >In article <8221v3l4m6vnnvq8i2goo5e2vmgr9ql7fh@4ax.com>,
>>> > Tim C. wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:34:56 -0500, erilar
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> >What a lot of people who complain about long German compound nouns don't
>>> >> >realize is that for English to say the same thing can easily take up
>>> >> >more space.
>>> >>
>>> >> On the other hand, we often have a single word for it - rather than a
>>> >> compound - which is almost always shorter.
>>> >
>>> >You snipped the part where I pointed out that that single word didn't
>>> >describe in detail and could make it necessary to seek out a dictionary,
>>> >where the long German word did describe in detail.
>>>
>>> True, I did snip it. The DDSG... example is a case in point, of
>>> course, but I find many other compound words in German describe pretty
>>> common enough things that English speakers would most likely know the
>>> single English word for them.
>>>
>>> For example.
>>> Strassenbahn + Haltestelle = Strassenbahnhaltestelle = Tram stop.
>>
>>Tram isn't international. . . .
>
>You're sounding like Mixi.
>How many countries does a word have to be known in to be
>international? Or what every you mean by that.
>Tram is an Austrian word, or at least lower German or something.
and Dutch.
>
>Could you tell me what "Schwankungsrückstellung" is without looking it
>up?
Written on the back of large articulated trucks and buses?
--
Martin
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