coin!



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You kids with your long hair and Baroque music...

owt

Purloin



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Metaphors be with you!

sirloin



There is only one inborn error, that is the notion we exist in order to be happy.
This arises from constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction.

*ahem*

Pneumnoultramiscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis


*bows*



(It's a lung disease, most often seen in miners.)

Impressed, Kazzie. Sounds 'orrible.



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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

Unfortunately, you spelled it wrong:

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Wikipedia has it, but no, I don't give you the link. Type it yourself. I recommend the article.

And, as long as we are on medical terms:

Steinlaus

Kazzie always spells things wrong, it's part of her charm. It's a typo thing: everyone does it at some point - it's not a big deal.



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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

Plus I was typing it from a book and looking back and forth twist book and monitor. Small wonder if I got it wrong. Besides, words like that SHOULD be spelt wrong.

well I would have believed you anyway Kaz, life's too short to be a walking spellcheck.

Ditto.



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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

And, just to be a show-off:

Supercalifradulisticexpialidocious.

Don't get in a contest with a german about long words. I can get you one just as easily:

Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

Eighty-six letters and it is almost not a joke.

German doesn't count! Unless I can get away with eskimo;

takusariartorumagaluarnerpa

(That straight-dope fella is a goldmine)

Bothallchoractorschumminaroundgansumuminarumdrumstrumtruminahumptadumpwaultopoofoolooderamaunsturnup!

(A lovely Joyce-ian portmanteau thunderclap from Finnegans Wake. Justified by literary precedent.)



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Metaphors be with you!

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu (of The Kenny Everett Video Show fame [remember the cartoon native at the beginning of the show? That's what he was saying])

OR

Krungthepmahanakornamornratanakosinmahintarayutthayamahadilokphop
nopparatrajathaniburiromudomrajaniwesmahasatharn
amornphimarnavatarnsathitsakkattiyavisanukamprasit (also known as Bangkok)


Okay, I think I've been silly enough now.



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Prinz Hilde, what's the German word for speed limit? I know it has 20 something letters, but darned if I can remember. Or work internet translators.

And the kicker for every Junior high schooler...

disestablishmentarianism

That looks so short now. *is sad*



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You kids with your long hair and Baroque music...

Shouldn't there be an 'anti'stuck on the front of that? My brother absolutely loves that word, even now, and he's long out of highschool.

Personally, I prefer...

muddle

Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung

Nothing unusual with this word. Even if you wrote Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzungsmessverfahrenseichung (calibration of speed limit measuring method), nobody would turn his/her head. It is simply the way this language works.

Yesterday I came across a scholaric website about german grammar where the principle of construction for those kind of words was named, most adequately, "Determinativkompositum". The author claimed that 98% of all german substantivs fell under that category, where the first part of the word is an assignation to the second (and the third and the fourth and...)

Llangwafryrreddllyoecoehighescumbraecondestrachllyangogogoch
I'm sure it exists in Wales somewhere.



There is only one inborn error, that is the notion we exist in order to be happy.
This arises from constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction.