Compound words are formed by combining words in increasingly complex ways; they range from two-component words to words with five or six components, and there is no clear boundary or limit to how complex compound words can become.
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Douglas HofstadterEvidence Quote
“compound words...some of them have two components, some of them three, four, five, six...they get bigger and bigger and bigger and they sort of know no limit. [48:39]”
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