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| Arseen:
Posting with Amathar got me thinking of complexity of Finnish language which led me to think the longest word in different languages. So which is the longest word in your language, not counting combination words like basketball, combination of basket and ball. I count those out because in Finnish you could link pretty much limitless combos. ;) Prefixes like un- and in- are acceptable as are postfixes. Also post the translation, if not English. and if specialty word explain us what it means. I'll post longest Finnish word when I manage to translate it. ;D |
| Arseen:
FINNISH: epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyydellänsäköhänkään =48 letters Translation goes something like this: [Asking while expressing double (serious) doubt] not even with his/her most disorganization causing way Or replace disorganization with methodicalness breaking Not spot on, but can't get it any better. BTW: Base word is järjestelmällisyys (methodicalness) (or järjestelmä (system) or järjestys (order) depending how much you want to backtrack) rest are pre- and postfixes. ;D BTW2: nearly impossible to use in sentence. BTW3: Probably too many pre- and postfixes to be accepted in GBWR, it used to be there though in bit shorter form- BTW4: Sweden had in GBWR combination word of 120+ letters, but Finnish could probably beat that. ;D |
| amarthar:
In Polish the longest word I'm aware of is "Konstantynopolitańczykiewiczówna" (32 letters) which is a surname, so it doesn't have a translation. |
| Arseen:
--- Quote from: amarthar on June 01, 2011, 06:39:48 AM ---In Polish the longest word I'm aware of is "Konstantynopolitańczykiewiczówna" (32 letters) which is a surname, so it doesn't have a translation. --- End quote --- something like people from Constantinople? |
| amarthar:
Kinda like that, though it is specifically female. Here in Poland some surnames have variations depending on gender, ie. "Kowalski" for male and "Kowalska" for female. |
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