The general rule in Swedish is to combine words when they constitute a single noun entity. One advantage of this method is that it makes disambiguation easier.
E.g. phone company vs phonecompany -- am I supposed to phone the company or am I talking about a company which proveds a telephone service?
Of course such examples are more common in Swedish since we use more suffixes when using nouns.
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Dec 22nd 2005 9:05PM (Joystiq)E.g. phone company vs phonecompany -- am I supposed to phone the company or am I talking about a company which proveds a telephone service?
Of course such examples are more common in Swedish since we use more suffixes when using nouns.