Author Topic: This word is way too long...  (Read 2569 times)

Levski

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« Reply #15 on: November 04, 2005, 05:24:45 am »
Okay, that long word is way too long.

floccinaucinihilipilification however, is a fine word, one that I have often used.

For example, when you are mad at someone, but don\'t want them to really insult them, just confuse them, you can say:

\"Karyuu, why do you always have to be such a floccinaucinihilipilificatrix?\"

:D

(I\'m not mad at Karyuu ;))

P.S.  That\'s why Robert Heinlein is the best author _ever_.  That\'s where I first came across this word, in one of his novels.
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« Reply #16 on: November 04, 2005, 08:51:53 am »
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or as it says Titin, because it really is pointless having such a name just to hold a damn record


Its not a name just to hold a record, its just the stupid IUPAC system for naming organic compounds, which fails miserably when you get to very long and complicated carbon molecules.

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P.S. That\'s why Robert Heinlein is the best author _ever_. That\'s where I first came across this word, in one of his novels.


Wow, he can use a dictionary.  In my mind someones worth as an author is pretty independant of their ability to use long and stupid words for the sake of it.
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