On 05/23/2014 02:53 AM, David Love wrote:
MR ZenWiz <mrzen...@gmail.com> wrote:
The longest word in any English language is the name of a small town in
Wales - Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyllllantysiliogogogoch (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.
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu
(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
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