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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.

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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?

Nah I just didn't know anything about Mandarin really

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