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To: docbnj

I notice that “judenmord” is one word. I know German is full of examples of this. In English, when we concatenate two words, it tends to differentiate the idea from other ideas, so “jewmurder” would imply a fundamentally different concept than “murder”. Is this the same in German? Does the concatenation imply a seperate concept from “murder”?


22 posted on 05/20/2009 2:07:46 PM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out (click my name)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out
Does the concatenation imply a seperate concept from “murder”?

No. "Massenmord" is mass murder, etc. They just like to concatenate words.

47 posted on 05/20/2009 2:27:52 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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