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RE: [OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispel
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Jürgen Hartmann |
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RE: [OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*) |
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Mon, 22 Jun 2015 12:20:07 +0200 |
Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>> DonauDampfschifffahrts-GesellschaftsKapitänskajütenSchlüsselloch
>>
>> ...
>> and means "keyhole of the captain's cabin of the Donau steam shipping
>> society".
>
> Am I right that under the "old" rules, there should be a double "f", not
> a triple one?
Yes, that's right. You seem to be very familiar with this language--I guess
that there are even many German native speakers that don't remember that.
So with the "new" spelling the word became even longer. They are growing...
> I haven't been using Esperanto actively for more than two decades now,
> so I'm no authority, but my guess is: probably yes, though it might
> sound a bit strange or jocular - but from grammar point of view it's
> perfectly valid. (In Esperanto, there is no such thing as "non-existent
> compound word": if you need it, you make it up, and if it satisfies the
> rules, it's fine.) Most probably, though, an Esperanto-speaking
> mathematician would say "aro de arteorioj".
Ah, I see. This phrase is much clearer than the constructed compound
Juergen
- Re: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*, Emanuel Berg, 2015/06/21
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- Re: [OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*), Emanuel Berg, 2015/06/21
- RE: [OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*), Jürgen Hartmann, 2015/06/23
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- Re: [OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*), Emanuel Berg, 2015/06/21
- Re: [OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*), Marcin Borkowski, 2015/06/22
- RE: [OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*), Jürgen Hartmann, 2015/06/23
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- Re: [OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*), Emanuel Berg, 2015/06/22
- RE: [OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*), Jürgen Hartmann, 2015/06/23
Re: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*, Oleh Krehel, 2015/06/22