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Kuiper7986

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This word is way too long...
« on: November 03, 2005, 11:50:55 am »
Main Entry:   floccinaucinihilipilification
Pronounced: flossy-naussy-ni-hili-pili-fi-cation

Part of Speech:  Noun

Definition:  An act or instance of judging something to be worthless or trivial

Etymology:  The parts of the word each mean `at nothing\' or `with a small price\'



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My name is NOT pronounced, \"Kway-per,\" it\'s pronounced \"Kye-per.\"

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« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2005, 11:59:42 am »
i guess it would be floccinaucinihilipilification then to judge this word to be unimportant despite its size.
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« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2005, 12:02:36 pm »
bah!

Stop being so floccinaucihilipilificatious in response to my thread.
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« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2005, 12:10:03 pm »
The return of Kuiper threads \\o/

As always, I floccinaucinihilipilificatiate Kuiper threads :|
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« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2005, 12:27:10 pm »
2 entries found for pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

Main Entry: pneu?mo?no?ul?tra?mi?cro?scop?ic?sil?i?co?vol?ca?no?co?ni?o?sis
Pronunciation: \'n(y)?-m&-(\")nO-\"&l-tr&-\"mI-kr&-\'sk?p-ik-\'sil-i-(\")kO-v?l-\'kA-nO-\"kO-nE-\'O-s&s
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural pneu?mo?no?ul?tra?mi?cro?scop?ic?sil?i?co?vol?ca?no?co?ni?o?ses /-\"sEz/
: a pneumoconiosis caused by inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust
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« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2005, 02:30:12 pm »
Yeah yeah, but what about the longest Finnish word, eh? Eh? ;D

Ep?j?rjestelm?llisyydellistytt?m?tt?myydell?ns?k??nk?h?n

Yes, that\'s 56 letters. I haven\'t run across a longer word (non-compound one), but I do believe that some languages such as Hungarian are capable of forming an even longer word with suffixes, because that\'s basically what the word is made of.

I\'ve been told the breakdown is:

J?rjestelm? - System
Ep?j?rjestelm? - Unsystem
Ep?j?rjestelm?llisyys - Unsystematicality
Ep?j?rjestelm?llisyydellinen - Something that is seen as unsystematicality
Ep?j?rjestelm?llisyydellistytt?? - To make something/-one be seen as unsystematicality
Ep?j?rjestelm?llisyydellistytt?m?t?n - One that hasn\'t made something be seen as unsystematicality / Something that hasn\'t been made be seen as unsystematicality
Ep?j?rjestelm?llisyydellistytt?m?tt?myys - The act of not having made something be seen as unsystematicality
Ep?j?rjestelm?llisyydellistytt?m?tt?myydell? - With the act... ^^^
Ep?j?rjestelm?llisyydellistytt?m?tt?myydell?ns? - With his/her act... ^^^
Ep?j?rjestelm?llisyydellistytt?m?tt?myydell?ns?k??n - Not even with his act... ^^^
Ep?j?rjestelm?llisyydellistytt?m?tt?myydell?ns?k??nk? - Is it not even with... ^^^
Ep?j?rjestelm?llisyydellistytt?m?tt?myydell?ns?k??nk?h?n - I wonder if it\'s not... ^^^

Seems like that word is a nightmare to translate, and evidently it\'s completely incomprehendable even for a native Finn. Good grief! :)
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« Reply #6 on: November 03, 2005, 03:36:51 pm »
intriguing, however, i keep my words short as possible ^^


I wonder about words that are known or understood worldwide...
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« Reply #7 on: November 03, 2005, 04:14:41 pm »
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« Reply #8 on: November 03, 2005, 04:20:31 pm »
Oh that\'s just ridiculous. 189,819 letters? Can\'t they just shorten it to \"Steve\"?
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« Reply #9 on: November 03, 2005, 04:20:50 pm »
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http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Methionylthreonylthreonyl...isoleucine


or as it says Titin, because it really is pointless having such a name just to hold a damn record
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« Reply #10 on: November 03, 2005, 04:37:25 pm »
how would you feel if your name was 189,819 letters long...what if you had to fill that name in by filling in the bubbles. HOLY SHIOZU...
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« Reply #11 on: November 03, 2005, 04:46:10 pm »
i\'d beat my parents for naming me somethign that long, then have it changed to something better, and comprehendable
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« Reply #12 on: November 03, 2005, 05:59:45 pm »
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Originally posted by Karyuu
Yeah yeah, but what about the longest Finnish word, eh? Eh? ;D

Ep?j?rjestelm?llisyydellistytt?m?tt?myydell?ns?k??nk?h?n

Yes, that\'s 56 letters. I haven\'t run across a longer word (non-compound one), but I do believe that some languages such as Hungarian are capable of forming an even longer word with suffixes, because that\'s basically what the word is made of.

I\'ve been told the breakdown is:

J?rjestelm? - System
Ep?j?rjestelm? - Unsystem
Ep?j?rjestelm?llisyys - Unsystematicality
Ep?j?rjestelm?llisyydellinen - Something that is seen as unsystematicality
Ep?j?rjestelm?llisyydellistytt?? - To make something/-one be seen as unsystematicality
Ep?j?rjestelm?llisyydellistytt?m?t?n - One that hasn\'t made something be seen as unsystematicality / Something that hasn\'t been made be seen as unsystematicality
Ep?j?rjestelm?llisyydellistytt?m?tt?myys - The act of not having made something be seen as unsystematicality
Ep?j?rjestelm?llisyydellistytt?m?tt?myydell? - With the act... ^^^
Ep?j?rjestelm?llisyydellistytt?m?tt?myydell?ns? - With his/her act... ^^^
Ep?j?rjestelm?llisyydellistytt?m?tt?myydell?ns?k??n - Not even with his act... ^^^
Ep?j?rjestelm?llisyydellistytt?m?tt?myydell?ns?k??nk? - Is it not even with... ^^^
Ep?j?rjestelm?llisyydellistytt?m?tt?myydell?ns?k??nk?h?n - I wonder if it\'s not... ^^^

Seems like that word is a nightmare to translate, and evidently it\'s completely incomprehendable even for a native Finn. Good grief! :)
Leave the Mexicans to decide on that word
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« Reply #13 on: November 03, 2005, 08:06:07 pm »
i got a longer one....(or atleast one with more sylables.)

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« Reply #14 on: November 03, 2005, 08:12:21 pm »
Thats just a bunch of words put in to sound like a huge word...Continuing a new word off of the last letter of the previous word :|
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