The longest word

[Tanguera]

I was reading the thread about long sentences and I wondered: which is the longest word in your language? The Italian one is: precipitevolissimevolmente. :D

[Tanguera]

I forgot to write that precipitevolissimevolmente means "very hasty" and that there's not too much people using it. :)

[DennisBeach]

I was reading the thread about long sentences and I wondered: which is the longest word in your language? The Italian one is: precipitevolissimevolmente. :D

The joke answer is smiles, 2 s's with a mile betweeen them.

[Corne]

The joke answer is smiles, 2 s's with a mile betweeen them.

Excellent. LOL

[Tanguera]

Lol :D

[MacMoto]

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English

[DancePoet]

Hi MacMoto!

How's it going? Still riding the same bus? ;)

[Pacion]

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English

From some reason, this word f. l. o. c. c. i. n. a. u. c. i. n. i. h. i. l. i. p. i. l. i. f. i. c. a. t. i. o. n tickled me! Not going to even try to pronounce it. But, must learn the spelling. Never know when it might come in handy! :lol:


The longest non-technical word is f. l. o. c. c. i. n. a. u. c. i. n. i. h. i. l. i. p. i. l. i. f. i. c. a. t. i. o. n at 29 letters. Consisting of a series of Latin words meaning "nothing" and defined as "the act of estimating something as worthless," its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741.[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English#_note-1)[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English#_note-2)[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English#_note-3) In recent times its usage has been recorded in the proceedings of the United States Senate by Senator Robert Byrd (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd) [5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English#_note-4), and at the White House by Bill Clinton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton)'s press secretary Mike McCurry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_McCurry), albeit sarcastically.[6] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English#_note-5)


The word does not have fullstops in it - it was the only way I could get it to look correct on screen without additional characters!

[Tanguera]

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English

Wow! What an answer! :D

My question was just for fun, since here on DF there are people writing from all over the world! ;)

[samina]

From some reason, this word f. l. o. c. c. i. n. a. u. c. i. n. i. h. i. l. i. p. i. l. i. f. i. c. a. t. i. o. n tickled me! Not going to even try to pronounce it. But, must learn the spelling. Never know when it might come in handy! :lol:



The word does not have fullstops in it - it was the only way I could get it to look correct on screen without additional characters!

how absolutely funny... the SO taught me this word over the weekend! was impressed because he could use it intelligently in a sentence.

lol

[samina]

defined as "the act of estimating something as worthless"

yeah, i had a good laugh. i was like, you mean, "make something moot?"

the long word sounds better, tho. :)

[Pacion]

yeah, i had a good laugh. i was like, you mean, "make something moot?"

the long word sounds better, tho. :)

lol! The first, non four letter word that came to my mind, was nonsense! :lol:

[bordertangoman]

llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiolo gogogoch is the name of a place in Anglesea in Wales. it even had a railway station

see Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch.com for a translation........:)

[reb]

AFAIK, in the subcategory of longest monosyllable words . . . 'strength' is the longest in the English language with just one vowel and 'strengths' is tied with others as the longest (others: screeched, . . . )

[Merrylegs]

That is some wild stuff. The question begs to be asked: Why? :raisebro:

llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiolo gogogoch is the name of a place in Anglesea in Wales. it even had a railway station

see Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch.com for a translation........:)

[Tanguera]

llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiolo gogogoch is the name of a place in Anglesea in Wales.


Oh, my! :shock: And how is it supposed to be read??? All at once? I should take a deep breath before!!! :)

[Twilight_Elena]

Aristophanes created the largest known Greek word, with 183 characters, describing a dish. :shock:

T_E

[MacMoto]

Oh, my! :shock: And how is it supposed to be read??? All at once? I should take a deep breath before!!! :)

See http://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantys iliogogogoch.co.uk/say.php

There's a link to an audio clip so you can hear the place name, and also a breakdown of the name to help you say it yourself. Good luck ;)

[Movement]

My first language was vietnamese and I forgot a whole lot of it sadly. I understand it well but my accent when speaking is pretty bad. But the longest word in vietnamese is nghiêng. That's right a whole 7 letters! There might be other seven letter words but nothing comes to mind.

[fascination]

interesting, thanks for sharing...but sorry you've forgotten some of it

[Movement]

Thanks but I really only have myself to blame. At home I was taught vietnamese but at school in the US everyone spoke english of course. It was such an easy language to pick up and my siblings spoke it so I wanted to be like them and spoke english too. I went to vietnamese/bible school for quite a few years on saturdays (after I have already forgotton most of my vietnamese) But the teachers didn't speak in english and the books were only in vietnamese so I don't see how I was supposed to learn anything. Even though I am only fluent in english now, more than a few people have told me I have an accent of some sort. Others say I don't have one at all. I'd like to think I don't except certain words don't flow like "drawer". Kind of strange?

But I know enough that if I were to go to vietnam I could order food and keep some simple conversations going.

[fascination]

well, that is still a cool thing...I hope you continue to retain it