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The germans have a word for it.

"This week I went to Germany where I discovered they have a word for being excessively fond of abbreviations. The word is abkürzungsfimmel and it makes sense in a language with words of such dire length that they look as if they’ve been typed on a keyboard with no space bar."

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@cyrilpedia my current favourite German compound word is "Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetzbefristungsdauerverlängerungsverordnung", a legal term that is so long that its acronym (WissBDVV) contains another acronym (the Wiss unfolds to WissZeitVG).

See here: gesetze-im-internet.de/wissbdv

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