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From: kjfair@midway.uchicago.edu (Kenneth Fair)
Subject: Re: Parser construction (was: Inform in other languages)
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In article <4onurq$ofd@news.lth.se>, mol@marvin.df.lth.se (Magnus Olsson) wrote:


>It's an interesting point that English nouns are used attributively to
>such a large extent. In most Germanic languages compound nouns are
>used instead; this possibility exists in English as well (pot-plant
>rather than pot plant) but isn't very common. 

I don't know that it's *that* uncommon.  There are quite a few compound
nouns that have gone the "pan cake" -> "pan-cake" -> "pancake" route.
Not nearly the same as German, of course, but not insubstantial.

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