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nephihahayesterday at 9:45 PM4 repliesview on HN

"Outcounterexampled": there's a neologism worthy of German.


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beeforporktoday at 12:08 PM

I must object. Because this is derivation, not composition. German is noteworthy for its long compositional word formations (though many other language are, too, e.g., Finnish). German can do derivation, too, but not significantly more than English (and the verb prefix 'out-' is hard to map into German in this case). For admiring derivation, you'd have to point to, e.g., Greenlandic instead (e.g. _iliorfigeqatigiissariaqaraluarput_ roughly 'they should work together' (from the Declaration of Human Rights)).

To be clear, I do like 'outcounterexampled' a lot!

FabHKyesterday at 10:18 PM

Übergegenbeispielt.

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inigyoutoday at 12:12 PM

Outcounter example: I was playing baseball, and when the outcounter advanced to three, it was the other team's turn to play.

soupspacesyesterday at 10:10 PM

vibe counterexamplemaxxing

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