I'm not sure why it would be considered that bad -- I'd even say it's common usage in something like 'X doesn't live here anymore'. After all, we have 'anywhere' and 'anyone' as perfectly valid words.
The way these things usually seem to go in English (when the compound proves useful and common) is to start as two separate words, then become one hyphenated word, then lose the hyphen and become one standard word.
(Mind you, I suspect something similiar would happen in any language -- convenience usually wins out over purism as far as usage goes. Doesn't German have a tendency to jam multiple words together into one long one, and then knock out the middle to make a brand new word? :D)
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Date: 2006-08-28 10:25 pm (UTC)The way these things usually seem to go in English (when the compound proves useful and common) is to start as two separate words, then become one hyphenated word, then lose the hyphen and become one standard word.
(Mind you, I suspect something similiar would happen in any language -- convenience usually wins out over purism as far as usage goes. Doesn't German have a tendency to jam multiple words together into one long one, and then knock out the middle to make a brand new word? :D)