• Hadriscus@jlai.lu
    5·
    2 months ago

    It’s only nouns ? can german not agglutinate several verbs into one super-verb to express an action made up of many components or steps ?

    • macniel@feddit.org
      5·
      2 months ago

      no, thats not how composits work. Sure there are composite-verbs but they are rather limited (unlike composite-nouns which can become extremely long)

    • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de
      41·
      2 months ago

      It can’t. German can only make compound nouns and even then it usually can’t combine multiple concepts. Instead, everything except the last component is there to specify what the last component is about.

      Source: am German

      • Hadriscus@jlai.lu
        1·
        2 months ago

        I see, every qualifier goes first and then the noun. Seems pretty intuitive

    • Archpawn@lemmy.world
      22·
      2 months ago

      So I’ve heard. There probably are other languages that could work. ChatGPT says polysynthetic languages like Inuktitut, Mohawk, and Chukchi do. I don’t have time to double check, but I’m sure if ChatGPT’s wrong there are other examples where it’s true.

      Unfortunately, in 2025 they closed the loophole. You only can use the listed commands. And I notice the loophole didn’t work for sending in either version of 5e (or in 3.5). It specifies a “short” message of 25 words or less, so while you could compress an arbitrarily long message into a single word (though possibly having to use some Morse code-type deal) it wouldn’t help because it wouldn’t be a “short” message.

      • Hadriscus@jlai.lu
        2·
        2 months ago

        Hm, I don’t like to rely on LLMs to look up definitions to be honest. Thanks for your insight