If you enjoy long words, we recommend reading the resolution proposals from the administration. If someone has the gift of creating terms that require repeated practice in order to pronounce them correctly and the greatest concentration while reading in order to understand what it is all about, then it is probably the employees in town halls and authorities. Letter after letter is lined up without gaps in order to then give a recommendation that does not even fit in one line, such as the decision of a “distance observation device”.
Not only that you first have to realize that these are markings on the motorway. With such monsters as the road development contribution statute or the emptying of residual waste containers, one wonders: Why do they actually have no hyphens in the office? Unterhaching’s mayor Wolfgang Panzer had to read through countless pages with word monsters in the building committee this week when he presented the considerations for a development plan: spacing depths, telecommunications infrastructure, rainwater exemption ordinance. The terms from the meeting of the planning association for the outer economic area of Munich could easily keep up. In Oberhaching it was about cold air ducts, district heating supply areas and additional rental costs. It is inconceivable how much taxpayers would have to pay for the many hyphens if all these words were to be linked. A flat rate for hyphenation would be unavoidable.
All the more astonishing is the suggestion from the district administration that the Unterhaching community should very well add hyphens to the list of trees in its development plan. She wanted to plant sycamore, field maple, Scots pine, bird cherry and winter linden in the expanded northern industrial area. But the case does not work without hyphens, the higher authority of the municipal building department made clear.
Since these are real representatives of their genus, according to the district office, one must write sycamore maple, field maple, forest pine, bird cherry and winter linden. But be careful with the correction: Hornbeam and mountain ash are correct, because the hornbeam is not a real beech, but a birch plant and the mountain ash is a Sorbus species that with the real ash, i.e. the Fraxinus, only has to do visually. There look! Before one carelessly distributes hyphens or even connecting lines, the authenticity of at least trees should be checked.
Unterhaching has probably used up its budget of hyphens for this year. How good that nobody has to think about whether it is called zebra stripes or zebra crossing if the zebra is not real. It is better to write crossing facility markings.