• ChaoticNeutralCzech
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    1 year ago

    No. It’s not anti-((air defense) searchlight) (an unspecified device against air defense searchlights) but (anti-(air defense)) searchlight (searchlight against air defense).

    Still better than what the original title suggests: ((anti-air) defense) searchlight (defensive searchlight against air).

    • @rtxn
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      1 year ago

      Or you could follow the Germans’ way and call it an antiairdefencesearchlicht (meaning depends on context).

      • ChaoticNeutralCzech
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        1 year ago

        Capital letter, too.

        𝔏𝔲𝔣𝔱𝔴𝔞𝔣𝔣𝔢𝔫𝔰𝔱𝔬̈𝔯𝔲𝔫𝔤𝔰𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔞𝔥𝔩𝔯𝔢𝔣𝔩𝔢𝔨𝔱𝔬𝔯