It's true. In English we string words together instead of putting them into one word, so there's not really much difference beyond the odd bit of morphology.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 26 points 7 months ago

It's not even really morphology but orthography. Sure, German has some binding morphemes but the man difference is that English uses spaces

[–] Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It does make a difference though. The long chains of words in English are kinda clumsy compared to the Swedish/German words. In practice this just leads to English using abbreviations more.

[–] Trashboat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I dunno, a lot of these German words I see I’d abbreviate the hell outta if I knew how

[–] Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 2 points 7 months ago

All of the ones here are kinda extreme. Most words are alot shorter