• 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.