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jancsika ◴[16 May 25 18:41 UTC] No.44008607[source]▶

>>44001765 (OP) #

I feel like German compound nouns are just begging for ternary conditionals:

Was ist das für ein Raum?

Das ist mein Schläfrig?schlaf:wohnzimmer.

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1. lucb1e ◴[16 May 25 20:45 UTC] No.44009672[source]▶

>>44008607 #

Writing is nothing but a translation of speech though. I'm afraid you'd need to have a leading example in speech that you want to encode before this has a chance of catching on even in a subculture :(

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