Author Topic: What do you think the longest word is? (Read 1110 times)

Preytor_4 · « **on:** March 26, 2011, 04:59:20 PM »

Title says it all.

I think it is the chemical name of Titin:

(Put it in a spoiler because it is 189,819 letters long)

FOTEPX · « **Reply #1 on:** March 26, 2011, 05:06:34 PM »

Quote from: Wikipedia

However, lexicographers regard generic names of chemical compounds as verbal formulae rather than English words.

Preytor_4 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 26, 2011, 05:08:11 PM »

Quote from: FOTEPX on March 26, 2011, 05:06:34 PM

Quote from: Wikipedia
However, lexicographers regard generic names of chemical compounds as verbal formulae rather than English words.

I know this, tis why i asked the question.

FOTEPX · « **Reply #3 on:** March 26, 2011, 05:08:31 PM »

Quote from: FOTEPX on March 26, 2011, 05:06:34 PM

Quote from: Wikipedia
However, lexicographers regard generic names of chemical compounds as verbal formulae rather than English words.

Anyway, longest word actually used in literature is Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon. So meh. I thought Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious was the longest.

Thyrus · « **Reply #4 on:** March 26, 2011, 05:09:37 PM »

it also could be a german word since you can put many words in one singel one (if you know what I mean)

Preytor_4 · « **Reply #5 on:** March 26, 2011, 05:10:01 PM »

And the longest word in any major dictionary is: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

GoldenFox93 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 26, 2011, 05:10:50 PM »

Llanfairpwllgwyngyll.

Scourge of teh Galaxy · « **Reply #7 on:** March 26, 2011, 05:12:29 PM »

Someone once said the longest word was flossynossynahilapillafication (sp?), which is the practice of valuing something as worthless.

Apparently.

FOTEPX · « **Reply #8 on:** March 26, 2011, 05:13:05 PM »

Quote from: Thyrus on March 26, 2011, 05:09:37 PM

it also could be a german word since you can put many words in one singel one (if you know what I mean)

Yeah, SotechnicallyifyouregoingbythelogicinThyrusespostthiscouldbeconsideredintherunningsforthelongestwordinthehumandictionarybuthechancesofitgettingtherearemeracoulouslyslim.

Urjak · « **Reply #9 on:** March 26, 2011, 05:13:56 PM »

Antidisestablishmentarianism is the longest non-coined non-technical word, so it would be the most qualified.

Preytor_4 · « **Reply #10 on:** March 26, 2011, 05:14:42 PM »

Quote from: Scourge of teh Galaxy on March 26, 2011, 05:12:29 PM

Someone once said the longest word was flossynossynahilapillafication (sp?), which is the practice of valuing something as worthless.

Apparently.

Ah, you mean this: floccinaucinihilipilification

But it isn't longer than: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis :P

GoldenFox93 · « **Reply #11 on:** March 26, 2011, 05:15:27 PM »

Twoallbeefpattiesspecialsaucelettucecheesepicklesonionsonasesameseedbun.

090901 · « **Reply #12 on:** March 26, 2011, 05:40:04 PM »

The phobia of long words is hippoptomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

NFX · « **Reply #13 on:** March 26, 2011, 05:42:15 PM »

I am under the impression that the longest word in language is Swedish, and is 88 letters long. I can't for the life of me remember what it was. I think it has a T in it.

Scorpion · « **Reply #14 on:** March 26, 2011, 06:39:43 PM »

Nah, it's Sesiumfrancolithicmixialibidiumrixydixydoxydexydroxide.

GoldenFox93 · « **Reply #15 on:** March 26, 2011, 06:43:27 PM »

Quote from: NFX on March 26, 2011, 05:42:15 PM

I am under the impression that the longest word in language is Swedish, and is 88 letters long. I can't for the life of me remember what it was. I think it has a T in it.

Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetballs?

freeziez · « **Reply #16 on:** March 26, 2011, 08:56:59 PM »

Quote from: Scorpion on March 26, 2011, 06:39:43 PM

Sesium

:O

Gazea2 · « **Reply #17 on:** March 27, 2011, 04:05:08 AM »

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu is a place in New Zealand.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu

Avalanche · « **Reply #18 on:** March 27, 2011, 04:15:01 AM »

In GTM its Avalanche.Everyone stammmers while saying it and makes it the longest word because its the worst word to say on here.

ty4er · « **Reply #19 on:** March 27, 2011, 04:16:32 AM »

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