Monday, July 8, 2013

Long words, part 2

This is going to be a mini post.  Marika spotted this poster today, which perfectly illustrates the German tendency to cram lots of things into one compound word:



In this example--"nicht" means "not" and "zurechnungsfahig" is one long word meaning "guilty by reason of insanity"

Happy Monday all!
--Hadley

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