Lojban has shorter contractions for basic roots in compounding, reminiscent of "kun" and "on" readings of sinograms in Japanese.
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Compounding
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Linguistic purism is a silly idea; compounding, conversion, and derivation can only take you so far.
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the number of compoundings per year
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Arthur Pendennis, his son, was eight years old at the time of this event, so that it is no wonder that the latter, who left Bath and the surgery so young, should forget the existence of such a place almost entirely, and that his father’s hands had ever been dirtied by the compounding of odious pills, or the preparation of filthy plasters
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