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Don't need to go up that far north. This is just a trait of Germanic languages including Dutch in Belgium/Netherlands.

What's more, I remember reading about "vliegschaamte" in a Dutch newspaper recently so the word has arrived here too.

Indeed, German language is apparently the worst: http://www.learn-german-language-online.com/long-german-word...

Flugscham, Reichweitenangst, ...

Don't even need to leave English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_compound

Yeah but English (in Europe) would be more north than the others! :D

(Also, English is Germanic so it's included in what I commented anyway :P)

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