So, using adjectives = "disguis[ing] the fact"? Interesting. Evidently,
German is the only non-disguised language (and "chile relleno con carne
asada" should really be "chilerellenoconcarneasada," and it's English
translation shouldn't be "stufffed peppers with grilled beef*" but
"stuffedpepperswithgrilledbeef;" yeah, good luck with that).
*Yes, I know that "carne" is technically "meat," not "beef;" lo se.
However, it's almost exclusively used for "beef," since other meats would
be specified (e.g., pollo asado), so I went with "beef" as a more accurate
translation in this case.
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Felmon Davis wrote:
> On Fri, 23 May 2014, Doug wrote:
>
>
>> On 05/23/2014 02:53 AM, David Love wrote:
>>
>>> MR ZenWiz wrote:
>>>
>>> The longest word in any English language is the name of a small town in
>>>> Wales - Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyantysiliogogogoch
>>>> (see
>>>> Wikipedia if you're curious about what and where this is). I had
>>>> thought it was 56 letters, but this one is 59. Hmm.
>>>>
>>> Sorry, that's the second longest. The longest is in the North Island of
>>> New Zealand.
>>>
>>>
>>> Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturi
>> pukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu
>>
>>> (85 letters) which means "The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big
>>> knees, the climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about,
>>> played his nose flute to his loved one"
>>>
>>>
>>> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_long_place_names
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>>
>>> I would have to say that the big word above is not English.
>>
>> German is a language where there really _are_ long words in the language,
>> since German, much more than English, strings words together to make
>> longer ones. We have things like fireplace and carwash. (Fireplace
>> translates directly: Feuerplatz.) If you ask the average German what is
>> the longest word, he is likely to tell you,
>> "Oberweserdampfschiffahrtgeschäftskapitän"
>> which also happens to be the name of a song! (Perhaps the word was
>> invented by the songwriter?) Translating, it means the "Upper Weser
>> excursion boat company captain." But my German teacher, eons ago,
>> told me about a word of 100 letters, involving a a miscreant Hottentot
>> from Trödelstadt who was jailed in a latticework kangaroo cage for killing
>> his mother-in-law. I suppose it might actually have existed, back when
>> Germany had a presence in Africa.
>>
>> --doug
>>
>
> we do it too in English but disguise the fact. we write "airport parking
> garage manager" instead of "airportparkinggaragemanager."
>
> F.
>
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