• Ambiorickx@lemmy.world
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    Isn’t “Arbeitsnehmer” one who takes labor? I would think the worker gives his or her labor, and the industrialist takes it.

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      Here “arbeit” translates to “job” better than “labour”. One provides the job, the other takes the job (and consequently does the labour).

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          English is an inferior language because it does not combine words into one when it would make sense to do so to avoid confusion.

          Change my mind.

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            They use dashes, which is more readable (“self-sufficient”, and similar stuff), although idk if that’s what you meant

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              I’ve been trying to think of an example, the only one I could think of is “assault rifle”. In Swedish, where we contract words, it would be “assaultrifle”, so it’s clear you’re not encouraging someone to beat up a rifle.

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          Average English natives when they realize other languages exist

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      In Dutch we have werknemer and werkgever.

      Werknemer takes work (person with a job)

      Werkgever gives work (company hiring people)