• Zachariah
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    1 month ago

    probably also helps that acetaminophen is one of the shorter words in the language

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      Most Germanic-derived words in German are either shorter than that or they are compound words, which English has as well, just with spaces. Latin-derived words in German aren’t much longer than Latin-derived words in English.