Re: Why does German favor long compound words?

LEE Sau Dan wrote:

No, it isn't human nature. Ancient Greek wasn't written with spaces.
Classical and modern Chinese and Japanese are still not written with
spaces. Thai writing -- which is alphabetic -- isn't written with
spaces. Tibetan is written with a syllable-boundary mark, but no
spacing between parts.

Well, it's not human nature to do everything right. Or the world would have to be a much better place.

Imagine all the people
Taking the right decisions
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