In German you have verschlimmbessern - making something worse in an attempt to improve it
In English, it'd be the equivalent of taking "make worse by improving" and turning it into "makeworsebyimproving".
When I was learning German, we were taught the language has far fewer core nouns than English (4000 vs 20,000 is stuck in my head, but this is going back years), but then they bash them together to get the rest of the concepts.
An English neologism might be something like “imporse(n)” or maybe “imperiorate”. Personally that sounds more sophisticated to me. “Imporsement” or “imperioration” could be the nominalisations (what’s the noun for “worsen”?).
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Like Sanskrit. Also, in Sanskrit, many words have multiple meanings, so when you string them together, there is often (somewhat of) a combinatorial explosion of overall meanings.
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So it really depends on exactly what kind of information you are trying to package and how. Different languages compress differently.
Englisch took Angst and Zeitgeist. Take that one too?
E.g.: silly, ridiculous, foolish In Germany you have: albern, lächerlich, töricht
They are quite close to the English ones, but not exact the same. It's the other way around too: English doesn't have words that match the German ones 1:1
"Television" and "agoraphobia" are different; "downsizing" is less clear than the other examples.
Sure, but that's a purely orthographical difference, not a difference in the grammar of the languages. It's like saying that German is fundamentally different from English because in German, all nouns are capitalized, whereas in English, some nouns aren't capitalized.
There's a tendency to combine words out of existing fragments in German. Verschlimmbessern might be an example for this. In English I see this less often and there are many more words that come from Latin or Greek.
Some of the compounds may be written as compounds because that's just how you're supposed to write them, but sometimes there might be some kind of actual semantics behind it.
Could there be something similar going on in German, or is it really that German-speakers just concatenate things that English-speakers would write separately?
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The usage of these specific two words is just widespread enough to be entered into the dictionary.