Once upon a time Ralf Hildebrandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told us:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 04:08:19PM +0200, J Horacio MG wrote:
> > I believe a few words in the German language (or rather Plattdeutsch)
> > are 80+ character long (I mean real words). Wrapping just won't work in
> > this case ;)
>
> Uh, being German I can assure you that our language is not as
> perverted as you might think. And yes, there are hyphenation rules in
> German...
I don't know of many langauges that forbids hyphens, but in all True
Germanic (tm) languages you are always allowed to contatenate words
when needed, so even though you won't find 80+ character long words
in a dictionary, you can construct silly but perfectly "legal" words
of perverted length.
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