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> "septisyllabically" was probably an intentional neologism

I wouldn't call it a neologism, rather a construction.

It's as logical as

if you can count in Greek Latin*, that is. ;-)

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice

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NB: the same word in German - siebensilbig - is shorter and easily understood by German speakers.

*) doh ... thanks Eily++ ... see also Numeral_prefix

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Re^5: Confused by some var names in perlref
by Aldebaran (Curate) on Dec 08, 2018 at 00:02 UTC

    German famously pastes words together to get new ones. The one that I use as illustrative for english speakers is "genital traffic" = Geshlechtsverkehr, = sex.

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      Sorry for destroying the myth, but ... :)

      Geschlecht normally means "sex/gender", you'll find it on every passport without meaning "genital".

      Verkehr also means intercourse, like in social contact.

      It's a pretty formal word best translated as "sexual intercourse" and actually needs the same amount of space

      Geschlechtsverkehr
sexual intercourse

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      Please note that it's not that hard to decode because the "s" was inserted to glue the two words.

      (compare Sankt Petersburg which becomes "Sankt Peterburg" (Санкт-Петербу́рг) in Russian.)

      German is very constructive, even kids can intuitively decipher words which are normally Latin/Greek monsters in English or French.

      like hypoglycemic = unterzuckert (under sugared)

      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
      Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice

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        I stand corrected. My german is truly rusty....

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