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Thread #107330   Message #2224738
Posted By: Wolfgang
30-Dec-07 - 03:11 AM
Thread Name: BS: Gaelic word.
Subject: RE: BS: Gaelic word.
There are no long-winded German words. Never. We merely leave out the blanks between the successive words if they stand for a single concept,
so where you have to write "the winner of the world championship in ice hockey" and the French even have to use nine words after the article to express "le vainqueur du championat du monde en hockey sur glace", the Germans instead of writing the long-winded "der Sieger der Eis Hockey Welt Meister Schaft" simply write
Eishockeyweltmeisterschaftssieger.
And we write no long-winded sentences either.

Wolfgang (:-)