This is the name for the fear of long words, of which we have a lot in German due to the liberal formation of compounds.
linguistik
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German compounds
Goal flute or Bog flute?
Other examples of misunderstandings in the deconstruction of compounds:
- Tea variety: Tea + places
- Drop in pressure: pressure + drop (can lead to completely different contexts)