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muckefuck ([personal profile] muckefuck) wrote2011-03-22 09:51 pm
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belgo-luxembourgeoise-néerlandaise
Actually saw this on a document at work. Googling to confirm the spelling, I also turned up "germano-luxembourgo-belgo-néerlandaise" and "belgo-franco-luxembourgo-israélo-palestinienne". But neither of these has the feature I find most intriguing in the original, namely the double inflection. That is, I would've expected *belgo-luxembourgo-néerlandaise, with pseudo-classical linking vowels after each of the first two elements.

[identity profile] gorkabear.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I might be wrong but that double inflection could be either just a pedant mistake or something that remarks the fact that it's 50% belge+luxemburgoise and 50% néerlandaise.