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German compound nouns are just written without spaces. There's no grammatical difference between "Schlafsack" (= Schlaf "sleep" + Sack "bag") and "sleeping bag", except the way they're written down. In English we analyse a "word" as "a thing you write down with spaces on either side", which is valid as a definition or as an analysis, but it's not what we really think of when we talk about words, which we think of as something more fundamental.
If, tomorrow, we decided in English to write compound nouns without spaces, the language would have suddenly gained thousands and thousands of words, yet the only real difference would be a rule about writing things down. Spoken English would be exactly the same, so nothing fundamental about the actual bits of English would have changed.
German words don't tend to be long and convoluted. That's just a stereotype due to writing rules.
A sentence spelled without spaces isn't a word.
Stereotype?
Stereo type?
Stereo-type?
Or as some would say, classic wortlängenbedingte Sprachwesensverfälschung*. See the space there inbetween ☝️?
*amtlich korrigiert
Sprachwesensverfälschung, wenn ich bitten darf.
(Word length induced misconception of a language's nature)
Off topic, but in English, it’s called an ‘audio processing disorder’
talking without thinking.... that could be called "amischnattern"
Not that I'm aware of but you can always make one up.
Like "verarbeitiungszeitintensive Frage" or something like that.
Not that I am aware of, sorry.
All the words posted before by the others in the thread are made up, and some of them aren't even good at pretending to be German.
All words are made up...
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