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The really long words are nouns, and commands are verbs: calm.
It's only nouns ? can german not agglutinate several verbs into one super-verb to express an action made up of many components or steps ?
no, thats not how composits work. Sure there are composite-verbs but they are rather limited (unlike composite-nouns which can become extremely long)
Ok I see, thanks
It can’t. German can only make compound nouns and even then it usually can’t combine multiple concepts. Instead, everything except the last component is there to specify what the last component is about.
Source: am German
I see, every qualifier goes first and then the noun. Seems pretty intuitive
So I've heard. There probably are other languages that could work. ChatGPT says polysynthetic languages like Inuktitut, Mohawk, and Chukchi do. I don't have time to double check, but I'm sure if ChatGPT's wrong there are other examples where it's true.
Unfortunately, in 2025 they closed the loophole. You only can use the listed commands. And I notice the loophole didn't work for sending in either version of 5e (or in 3.5). It specifies a "short" message of 25 words or less, so while you could compress an arbitrarily long message into a single word (though possibly having to use some Morse code-type deal) it wouldn't help because it wouldn't be a "short" message.
Fortunately 2024 5e isn't real and can't hurt you.
Hm, I don't like to rely on LLMs to look up definitions to be honest. Thanks for your insight