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Off-Topic => All of all! => Topic started by: Almeidaboo on May 09, 2006, 11:40:02 PM

Title: Word!
Post by: Almeidaboo on May 09, 2006, 11:40:02 PM

Well, this may seem pointless and random at first, but meh, Drace is not here and someone has to take care of his functions in Charas: neing random.

So, my question is: what´s the longest and what´s the weirdest word in your language?

In portuguese, the longest would be "anticonstitucionaliscimamente", which means a act that goes against the country's "Constitution" (Magna Carta)

The weirdest would be...tapibaquígrafo. I dunno what that is, but I didn´t make it up. Could be "esdrúxulo" or "qüinqüênio", which is the only word that has more than one....stuff on it.

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Post by: Kijuki_Magazaki on May 09, 2006, 11:41:31 PM

parangaracutirimicuaro; it's a city somewhere in mexico XP

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Post by: Lighting Half Dozen on May 09, 2006, 11:47:11 PM

I forget what it is, but it soundsd like flaucinaucinahilipiliphication

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Post by: Bluhman on May 10, 2006, 12:27:22 AM

I am native Japanese... Or at least half. Whatever.

Anyway, I think the longest word in Japanese is "肥料の肥料の肥料の幸せでつまらないろば", But of course, I have no idea what that means. I'm pretty sure It's like a swear word, though.

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Post by: Archem on May 10, 2006, 12:32:17 AM

I'm not sure what the word is, but my friend has it memorized to the point where he can say it, spell it, and type it in seconds. Somethinglongvolcaniosis. Weirdest word? That's opinion based, and I say it's frampel. Look it up.

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Post by: Weerd Thing on May 10, 2006, 12:33:55 AM

Well, there's this word for a lung disease...

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanconiosis.

All 45 letters of this word are real.

As for the weirdest... hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian.

Which means, quite appropriately, "qualities pertaining to a long word".

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Post by: Cerebus on May 10, 2006, 01:03:52 AM

The longest word in french is : Anticonstitutionnellement. The second is : Oto-Rhyno-Laryngologiste. The weirdest... I don't know for now...

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Post by: coasterkrazy on May 10, 2006, 01:05:22 AM

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= Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Dahlemense Strain.
This word has appeared in the American Chemical Society's Chemical Abstracts and is thus considered by some to be the longest real word."

fun-with-words.com

It also says the longest non-chemical:
"(45) PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­CONIOSIS (also spelled PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­KONIOSIS) = a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of siliceous volcanic dust.
This is the longest word in any English dictionary. However, it was coined by Everett Smith, the President of The National Puzzlers' League, in 1935 purely for the purpose of inventing a new "longest word". The Oxford English Dictionary described the word as factitious. Nevertheless it also appears in the Webster's, Random House, and Chambers dictionaries."

Also, did you know the word quiz is the only word in the English language completely made up and not derived? It's true. Look it up. I forget the history of it. Something about it being written on a sign and people questioning it I think.

EDIT: Whoops, didn't notice Weerd already got that 45-letter one. Still cool to know the history though.

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Post by: Linkizcool on May 10, 2006, 04:11:32 AM

Talk about not widening the browser window!
 

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Post by: Razor on May 10, 2006, 07:53:16 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNEUMONO%C2%ADULTRA%C2%ADMICRO%C2%ADSCOPIC%C2%ADSILICO%C2%ADVOLCANO%C2%ADCONIOSIS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNEUMONO%C2%ADULTRA%C2%ADMICRO%C2%ADSCOPIC%C2%ADSILICO%C2%ADVOLCANO%C2%ADCONIOSIS)
Apparently people don't like that to be counted.

The longest one I knew was Antidisestablishmentarianism. Quote wikipedia: "If the word is taken literally, it could mean 'against the enemies of the establishment, but not necessarily aligned with the establishment'."

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Post by: Almeidaboo on May 10, 2006, 05:04:04 PM

And I thought mine was complicated! Geez...I think Beakman (remember him???) said that technical words didn´t count as big ones, so I think the french one is winning...

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Post by: Osmose on May 10, 2006, 07:07:48 PM

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Originally posted by Weerd Thing
Well, there's this word for a lung disease...

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanconiosis.

All 45 letters of this word are real.

Oh, thank god. For a second there I thought that second "c" was a fake letter and actually a terrorists. Phew.  ;)

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Post by: Linkizcool on May 10, 2006, 10:01:33 PM

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Originally posted by Razor

The longest one I knew was Antidisestablishmentarianism.

Same.