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Coining new words!

Posted by barryriley on 2013-03-16 03:32:02

If this was your point, it was rather oblique! I would have thought that, on the contrary, German has not been great at coining new words but rather tends to rely on compounds of old ones for new objects (e.g. unterseeboot), while English either borrows from other languages or creates new words.

Followups:

Coining new words! by Nick B. on  2013-03-16 03:49:49

Coining new words! by DonS on  2013-03-16 14:50:32