whats the longest word you know!!

homerule · 15-06-2005 04:54PM #1

whats the longest word you know!

homerule · 15-06-2005 04:57PM

superkallafragalistexpialladoechos

Chad ghostal · 16-06-2005 01:40AM

you were banned?

¬_¬ i know

derek27 · 16-06-2005 02:46AM

the longest meaningful word in the english dictionary is

ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM

the word is used to describe the state of opinion of people who are against the motion of others (especially an organisation) to deprive another oganisation (such as a national church) of its official status, to the best of my knowledge.

if you go into the realm of science and chemistry however you will find that some chemicals have names that are made up of in excess of 80 letters; but for all intensive purposes of the english language... these can be excluded.

Matthewthebig · 16-06-2005 02:47AM

what happened to all my posts in here?

Easily_Irritated · 16-06-2005 02:55AM

somebody ate em?

Piste · 16-06-2005 03:05AM

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcaniconiosis,

It's a disease miners get.

Son_of_Belial · 16-06-2005 03:23AM

Piste wrote:

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcaniconiosis,

It's a disease miners get.

Sweet Jesus, that's... *counts* 45 letters! Can you pronounce that without looking Piste?! Lol

derek27 · 16-06-2005 04:58AM

Piste wrote:

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcaniconiosis,

It's a disease miners get.

this is a descriptive term for the disease pneumoconiosus. its composed of every term which is required to describe the causative agent including its relative size and place of origin, the affected organ, and reveals the primary symptoms of the disease. its simply a protraction of the true medical term. however, it is the longest word ever to appear in a non-technical dictionary (Oxford English Dictionary). well done!

bringitdown · 16-06-2005 07:41AM

floccinaucinihilipilification

http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/f/floccinauci.html

MooShop · 16-06-2005 09:51AM

bringitdown wrote:

floccinaucinihilipilification

http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/f/floccinauci.html

thats a really hard word to pronounce

even harder than pneumo-what do you call it?? i think its because of all the i's in it

Einstein · 16-06-2005 10:02AM

humahumanukanukaapua'a

its the name of a native hawaii'an fish!

Talliesin · 16-06-2005 10:03AM

Hmm.

The text that you have entered is too long (189819 characters). Please shorten it to 10000 characters long.

The chemical name of the protein also known as Titin is 189819 letters long though.

Talliesin · 16-06-2005 10:06AM

derek27 wrote:

if you go into the realm of science and chemistry however you will find that some chemicals have names that are made up of in excess of 80 letters; but for all intensive purposes of the english language... these can be excluded.

No, it's only for intensive purposes that they get used

MooShop · 16-06-2005 10:49AM

Talliesin wrote:

Hmm.:( The chemical name of the protein also known as Titin is 189819 letters long though.

who the f*ck comes up with these names??

nobody would ever be able to pronounce that, its impossible.

Talliesin · 16-06-2005 11:03AM

There's a forumla for coming up with the name based on the chemical structure, it pretty much writes itself. Grand when your dealing with potassium chloride, okay when you're dealing with para-dichloro-diphenyltrichloroethane, though we still abbreviate that to DDT for convenience sake, but in the case of very large proteins (and titin is the longest protein known) it gets a bit cumbersome. The pronounciation follows simple rules though, so it wouldn't be hard, as long as you could pause to breathe in and maybe sip some water.

Still, they don't necessarily lack poetical use:

A mosquito cried out in his pain,
"A chemist has poisoned my brain!"
The cause of his sorrow
Was para-dichloro-
Diphenyltrichloroethane.

(I think that was written by one John Cowan, but I'm not sure, I'll ask him).

grosser · 16-06-2005 12:27PM

fuctifino

Naos · 16-06-2005 02:09PM

Grosser that word sounds very sexual, as in, shagged to death..

Anyway, go over to Wales. They have place names like:

thisisthelongestnameforavillagewecouldthinkofjustsowecanbefamousforsomethingapartfromourstupidleeksville.

Son_of_Belial · 16-06-2005 05:17PM

Divers wrote:

humahumanukanukaapua'a

its the name of a native hawaii'an fish!

Hmm, I wonder what Jimijimihumhumoboowe and Little brother would have to say about that? That's got to be Bamboocha!

_blank_ · 16-06-2005 05:46PM

Smiles tbh.

Why?

because there is a "mile" between the first and last letters.

Sarky · 17-06-2005 04:50PM

Boobies.

Talliesin · 17-06-2005 09:14PM

Talliesin wrote:

I think that was written by one John Cowan, but I'm not sure, I'll ask him

I asked him. It wasn't. He doesn't know who it was (Please don't sue me for breech of copyright Mr. or Ms. Mosquito Poem Writer).

mr_angry · 05-08-2005 12:26PM

IIRC the longest word in the world is some Sweedish word thats 238 letters long.

NotMe · 05-08-2005 12:36PM

It really depends on the width of the letters I think.

Talliesin · 05-08-2005 01:02PM

mr_angry wrote:

IIRC the longest word in the world is some Sweedish word thats 238 letters long.

Yep, that's much longer than the 189819-letter word mentioned earlier.

joejoem · 05-08-2005 04:19PM

I can spell my name

amp · 05-08-2005 05:11PM

mywinkie

Tar.Aldarion · 05-08-2005 07:03PM

cuckoo

Shanannigan · 08-08-2005 04:08PM

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllandyssilogogogogoch
thats that town in wales with the longest name in the world

Le Rack · 09-08-2005 04:20PM

I know a pretty long german word

sebenmillionsebenhundertsiebundsiebstigtausendsebenhundertsiebundsiebstig

i think, it gets hard to write after a while....

Creature · 09-08-2005 05:38PM

Talliesin wrote:

Hmm.:( The chemical name of the protein also known as Titin is 189819 letters long though.

I wonder will I get an extra hour in my exam on monday if I tell them I had to write that into one of the answers

whats the longest word you know!!

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