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[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 51 points 7 months ago

The German compound noun thing also works in other Germanic languages like, say, Dutch, Swedish and Old English. You can blame the Normans (i.e. a bunch of snobbish Vikings who, a generation earlier, decided to speak only French) for modern English’s lack of them.

[-] celeste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 7 months ago

Swedish is a Germanic language tf? Just checked Wikipedia and spparently you're right

[-] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 5 points 7 months ago

Nordic languages branched off from Germanic languages, so they're related yea

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