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Old 7th May 2012, 16:03
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Anthony Appleyard
 
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as do many languages. There is also the problem of agglutinative languages such as Finnish and Hungarian where the subject and preposition can become part of the word
As in Finnish words such as 'Microsoftin' (= "of Microsoft") and 'Nasalta' (= "from NASA").
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