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ronjakoi on Aug 1, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Slow

English is the only language I know of that allows spaces in compound words at all. It's a very peculiar feature of English orthography.

Timwi on Aug 2, 2025 [–]

Mandarin written in pinyin comes to mind as another example. Do you discount that because pinyin is not the primary writing system used for that language?

ronjakoi on Aug 2, 2025 | [–]

Nah I just didn't know anything about Mandarin really

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