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No, no. Please continue to be Deutschdazzled.
What do you have against “Rhababerbarbarakuchenbarbarenbartbarbierbierbarbärbel”?
For the uninitiated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3_tRPRt9x8
The German compound noun thing also works in other Germanic languages like, say, Dutch, Swedish and Old English. You can blame the Normans (i.e. a bunch of snobbish Vikings who, a generation earlier, decided to speak only French) for modern English’s lack of them.
