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The problem is, those aren't really words, they're chemicals that stand no chance at all off appearing in the english dictionary...
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Posted 06 February 2004 - 06:41 PM
Chemical names don't count. They aren't English words!
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Posted 09 February 2004 - 04:41 PM
aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic.
a real word.
52 letters.
ow.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is an important word to you if you are freaking way out right now. its the fear of long words. (36 letters)
and jsut to anoy you, the folowing:
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
is a village in Wales.
i can hear it now:
"where are you from?"
"you realy dont want to know."
"oh come on tell me."
"Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch"
"i'm sory did you just sneeze?"
"no."
"so where do you live?"
"Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch"
"do you have a cold or somthing?"
"AAARGH"
a real word.
52 letters.
ow.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is an important word to you if you are freaking way out right now. its the fear of long words. (36 letters)
and jsut to anoy you, the folowing:
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
is a village in Wales.
i can hear it now:
"where are you from?"
"you realy dont want to know."
"oh come on tell me."
"Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch"
"i'm sory did you just sneeze?"
"no."
"so where do you live?"
"Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch"
"do you have a cold or somthing?"
"AAARGH"
This post has been edited by Jarik C-Bol: 09 February 2004 - 04:50 PM
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Posted 04 April 2004 - 11:42 PM
| QUOTE (bigrat2 @ Feb 4 2004, 03:58 AM) | ||
| mwa ha ha pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, funny i searched "the longest word in the english language" in google and this is the word it came up with: Methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleucylphen- ylalanylalanylglutaminylleucyllysylglutamylarginyllysylgluta- mylglysylalanylphenylalanylvalylprolylphenylalanylyalylthre- onylleucylglcycylaspartylprolylglicylisoleucyglutamylgluta- minlserylleucyllysylisoleucylaspartylthreonylleucylisoleu- cylglutamylalanylglyclyalanylaspartylalanylleucyglutamylle- ucylgluycylisoleucylproluylphenylalanyserylaspartyprolylleu- celalanylaspartylglycylprolylthreonylisolleucyglutaminylaspa- raginylalanythreonylleucylarginylalanylphenylalanylalanylal- anylglycylvalylthreonylprolylalanylglutaminylcysteinylphen- ylalanylglglutamylmethionylleucyalanylleucylisoleucylarginyl- glutaminyllysylhistidylprolyuthreonylisoleucylprolylisoleuc- ylglycylleucylleucylmethionyltyrosylalanylasbaraginylleucyl- valylphenylalanylsparaginyyllysylglycylisoleucylaspartylglut- amylphenylalanylyltyrosylalanylglutaminylcysteinylglutamyll- ysylvalylglycylvalylspartylserylvalylleucylvallalanylaspart- ylvalylprolylvalvlglutaminylglutamylserylalanylprolylpheny- lalalrginylglutaminylalanylalanylleucylarginylhistidylasp- araginylvalylalalprolylisoleucylphenylalanylisoleucylcystei- nylprolyprolylaspartylalanylaspartylaspartyspartyleucylle- ucylarginylglutaminylisoleucylalanylseryltyroslglycylargin- ylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrosylleucylleucylserylarginlalanyl- glycylvalylthreonylglycylalanylglutamylasparaginylarginyla- nylalanylleucylprolylleucylaspaaginylhistidylleucylvalylalan- yllysylleucyllysylglutamyltyrosylasparagimylalanylalanypro- lylprolylleucylglutaminylglycylphenlalanylglycylisoleyucyls- erylalanylprolylaspartylglutaminylvalyllysylalanylalanylisol- eucylalspartylalanylglycylalanylalanylglycylalanylasoleucylse- rylglycylserylalanylisoleucylbalyllysylisoleucylisoleucylgluta- mylglutaminylhistidylasparaginylisoleucylglutamylpronylglu-0 tamyllysylmethionylluecylalanylalanyoeucyllysylvalylpheny- lalanylvalylglutamilylprolylmethionyllysylalanylalanylthreo- nylarginylserine apparently it is:
mwa ha ha |
... One thing to say. Just one.
Holy Crap![COLOR=red][B][FONT=Impact]
the guy who wrote that must've either been drunk or bored out of his mind!.
OMFG! Dear god! They probably just wrote a guess on how it was spelled. But God!
I get bored just writing out Democracy. Did you type that or copy it.
(don't say type...)
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Posted 05 April 2004 - 10:08 PM
| QUOTE (Alpha Weapon @ Feb 3 2004, 04:10 PM) |
| it's short for black lung antidisestablishmentarianism; is this that word? supercal... or whatever is only 39 letters long, but isn't a real word. edit: bty, silicon is an element |
hmm i always thought it was antidisestablismentarianism that was the longest real english word because all the chemical and phobia words were borrowed from latin...
This post has been edited by atilla123: 05 April 2004 - 10:09 PM
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Posted 05 April 2004 - 11:58 PM
"Antidisestablishmentarianism" is really a word with a double-negative prefix, and could be thought to mean "establishmentarianism" but it doesn't...
The definition for "disestablishmentarian" is someone who is against having goverments controling the church. therefore: "disestablishmentarianism" is the act of being against goverment controling the church. Which means: "antidisestablishmentarianism" is the act of being against someone who doesn't want the government to control the church. (therefore the double-negative is nonapplicable in this instance).
I looked up this word and memorized it (i don't really know why, i think i was temporarily COMPLETELY CRAZY) about a month ago, so i can't really remember wether it's the churches controlling government, or government controlling the church, or what have you. So you can go look it up.
*note*
The word "antidisestablishmentarianism" does not appear in the dictionary, as the meaning of prefixes and suffixes is obvious. However, in the Encarta World English Dictionary, the word "disestablishmentarian" appears, and you can just guess the prefixes.
*note2*
That really long chemical thingy is in fact not really an english word, think of it as "scientist lingo" or something. However "pneaumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" IS an english word, as it is a desease that results from inhaling the poisenous gas emitted from a volcano (see why it has "vulcano" in it?) while erupting. "pneaumono" can be explained as it causes lung problems (not unlike pneaumonia). "ultramicroscopic"? well, my guess is that the virus bacteria cells are really really small. In any case, those all look like regular english components to me...
-pneaumono
-ultra
-microscopic
-silico???
-vulcano
-coniosis
I sense no latin here...
Yeah... that's what i've got... (trying not to sound like a know-it-all, and trying not to brag) don't hurt me!
The definition for "disestablishmentarian" is someone who is against having goverments controling the church. therefore: "disestablishmentarianism" is the act of being against goverment controling the church. Which means: "antidisestablishmentarianism" is the act of being against someone who doesn't want the government to control the church. (therefore the double-negative is nonapplicable in this instance).
I looked up this word and memorized it (i don't really know why, i think i was temporarily COMPLETELY CRAZY) about a month ago, so i can't really remember wether it's the churches controlling government, or government controlling the church, or what have you. So you can go look it up.
*note*
The word "antidisestablishmentarianism" does not appear in the dictionary, as the meaning of prefixes and suffixes is obvious. However, in the Encarta World English Dictionary, the word "disestablishmentarian" appears, and you can just guess the prefixes.
*note2*
That really long chemical thingy is in fact not really an english word, think of it as "scientist lingo" or something. However "pneaumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" IS an english word, as it is a desease that results from inhaling the poisenous gas emitted from a volcano (see why it has "vulcano" in it?) while erupting. "pneaumono" can be explained as it causes lung problems (not unlike pneaumonia). "ultramicroscopic"? well, my guess is that the virus bacteria cells are really really small. In any case, those all look like regular english components to me...
-pneaumono
-ultra
-microscopic
-silico???
-vulcano
-coniosis
I sense no latin here...
Yeah... that's what i've got... (trying not to sound like a know-it-all, and trying not to brag) don't hurt me!
This post has been edited by mase windu: 06 April 2004 - 12:00 AM
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Posted 08 April 2004 - 03:31 AM
Note: I take that back.
From the experts of Oxford
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From the experts of Oxford
:| QUOTE |
| Most of the words which are given as `the longest word' are merely inventions, and when they occur it is almost always as examples of long words, rather than as genuine examples of use. The longest word currently listed in Oxford dictionaries is rather of this kind: it is the supposed lung-disease pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters). The formal names of chemical compounds are almost unlimited in length (for example, aminoheptafluorocyclotetraphosphonitrile, 40 letters), but longer ones tend to be sprinkled with numerals, Roman and Greek letters, and other arcane symbols. Dictionary writers tend to regard such names as `verbal formulae', rather than as English words. |
There we goes!
Some more info from the masters of Oxford:
| QUOTE |
| A 'word' of 1,909 letters cannot be a genuine word but must be a chemical name for the whole of a human chromosome which would run to many thousands of letters, but we would not consider it a word in the sense of an item of English vocabulary. |
This post has been edited by Reikin: 08 April 2004 - 03:50 AM
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Posted 02 July 2004 - 03:14 AM
antidissastblishedmaterialism is the longest word in english diction ary isnt it?
or geniocialiumcenfosididicmentholicdensitociliconentitariumoleecularvolecty
or geniocialiumcenfosididicmentholicdensitociliconentitariumoleecularvolecty
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Posted 04 July 2004 - 02:03 AM
woah...would a really long english word be considered a word if noone, or has been barely used be a word..i mean gosh cant they just shorten it. haha imagine that really long word was used in everday life and it was on a spelling test. itd be really hard to cheat. and for homework you had to write it 10x each and define it 