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You wrote so much while failing to read so little:

> in most cases

What do you think will happen if we will start comparing the lengths of the list ["hot dog", ...] and the list ["blue bird", "aeroplane", "sunny March day", ...]?



No, I read that, and it's wrong. Can you point me to a single compound noun that works that way?

A bluebird is a specific species. A blue parrot is not a bluebird.

An aeroplane is a vehicle that flies through the air at high speeds, but if you broke it down into morphemes and tried to reason it out that way you could easily argue that a two-dimensional flat surface that extends infinitely in all directions and intersects the air should count.

Sunny March day isn't a compound noun, it's a noun phrase.

Can you point me to a single compound noun (that is, a two-or-more-part word that is widely used enough to earn a definition in a dictionary, like AGI) that can be subjected to the kind of breaking apart into morphemes that you're doing without yielding obviously nonsensical re-interpretations?




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