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Old 02-02-2013, 12:27 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by Katsunami View Post

With regard to languages with long words, Dutch is a "nice" example. We stick everything together, so "computer programmer" becomes "computerprogrammeur"
In German, how about:
computer programming handbook
Computerprogrammierhandbuch

And

computer programming handbook selection
Computerprogrammierhandbuchauswahl

And

computer programming handbook selection criteria
Computerprogrammierhandbuchauswahlverfahren

Yeah, we need hyphenation badly!

Disclaimer: this was a stupid example, and, in this case, we would have broken down there term, but the are legitimate long words like that or longer.

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