May I ask where German is set in your scale?<br>An example that makes sense in german: Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz<br>(Cattle marking and beef labeling supervision duties delegation law)<br><br>Another thing to consider could be: Fremdschämen; Waldsterben, abseilen etc.,(reply>), @Malphoga Kempe There are indeed changes in the other direction, as well, that's right. For example:<br><br>English: "Such a thing." - German: "So'ne Sache."<br><br>English: "I'd be careful with such a matter." - German: "Ich wär' bei so'ner Sache vorsichtig."<br><br>I think of "Ich geh' Schule." as an elliptic phrase, nothing is fused at least. That approach, to see it as an allative form, is bold but very interesting. I like that. :D,(reply>), @Tanaqet     <br>But even if your examples are all fine and correct, a very new trend is <br>to be even more in fusional aspekts than ever.<br>"Ich gehe zur Schule" is the standard, meaning I go to school. "Ich geh <br>Schule" is a new form, developed by the youth. That is nothing more than<br> a new case. It is actually an old case called allative. Yet this trend <br>is viewed as a corrosion of the german language, even more than your <br>examples are. <br><br>The allative has been part of germanic, as much as I know. It is still <br>part of standard german speech as in "Ich gehe Gassi" instead of "Ich <br>gehe mit dem Hund in die Gasse, damit er seine Notdurft verrichten <br>kann".<br>So in total, german changes. Yay~~~,(reply>), @Tanaqet Thank you for your awnser. <br>But why do you see a trend towards a more isolating structure? You mean like a jargon?,(reply>), @Malphoga Kempe German is fusional, which is indicated by the conjugations and declensions of every main part of speech of the language. There are also agglutinations and mixtures of those two forms. "Aufbrauchbar" means "consumable". As we can see, "aufbrauchen" ("to deplete") becomes "aufbrauch-" with a stem that cannot stand alone (fusional aspect); "-bar" means "-able" and nothing more, it's a typical agglutination devise. The syllable "auf" can stand alone as a word meaning "on top of" and is in this case added to the verb "brauchen" ("to need") to create the word for "to deplete". We've got a pre- and a suffix in this word.<br><br><br>So German uses a lot of systems on our scale. But one can definitely see a trend towards a more isolating structure over the last centuries and pretty much every word that the speaker coins himself is a fusional word or a compound noun. I'd say it's noticeably shaped by fusions.,(reply>), @Nmat okay that may be. But you have things like befragen, erfragen, befragt, gefragt etc that are the things he meant, are they? There are a lot of things that change the meaning of a word, so where is german placed?