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June 01, 2011, 06:15:05 AM
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Arseen

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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

June 01, 2011, 06:30:15 AM
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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
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June 01, 2011, 06:39:48 AM
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In Polish the longest word I'm aware of is "Konstantynopolitańczykiewiczówna" (32 letters) which is a surname, so it doesn't have a translation.



June 01, 2011, 06:43:29 AM
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In Polish the longest word I'm aware of is "Konstantynopolitańczykiewiczówna" (32 letters) which is a surname, so it doesn't have a translation.

something like people from Constantinople?

June 01, 2011, 06:49:41 AM
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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.



June 01, 2011, 06:52:44 AM
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Had to look it up to get the correct spelling...

Just now tried to post it...
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The message exceeds the maximum allowed length (20000 characters).

heh.

http://www.sarahmcculloch.com/luminaryuprise/longest-word.php

It's a chemical compound. :D

Apparently, there's some disagreement over if it counts as a word or not though.
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June 01, 2011, 06:59:03 AM
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That's why I excluded combination words.  ;)

By translating that in to Finnish would add 2-5 letters per compound name thus making it at least 10% longer.

Had to look it up to get the correct spelling...

 ;D


June 01, 2011, 07:49:47 AM
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Nice One, but seens to be combination word as well.

Tera, para, hypo and kephallio, at least start new words in Greek (and English).

 ;)

June 01, 2011, 08:15:11 AM
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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

Fond new form:
epäjärjestelmällisyydellistyttymättömyydellänsäköhänkään = 61 letters

[Asking while expressing double (serious) doubt] not even with his/her most disorganization causing causing way

Or replace disorganization with methodicalness breaking.

 ;D

June 01, 2011, 08:22:20 AM
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From Wikipedia:
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Suomen kielessä käytetään vapaata yhdyssanamuodostusta - uusia sanoja voidaan muodostaa tarpeen mukaan vaikka kesken keskustelun. Tämä antaa mahdollisuuden yhdistää substantiiveja peräkkäin loputtomasti rikkomatta kielioppisääntöjä.

Translation

Finnish language uses free form compound word forming - new words can be formed as necessary even if the middle of a conversation. This gives the opportunity to combine nouns in a row endlesly without breaking the grammar rules.

= Finnish is laguage with endlessly long words.  ;D

That's why I excluded compound words.
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June 01, 2011, 10:23:49 AM
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From Wikipedia:
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Suomen kielessä käytetään vapaata yhdyssanamuodostusta - uusia sanoja voidaan muodostaa tarpeen mukaan vaikka kesken keskustelun. Tämä antaa mahdollisuuden yhdistää substantiiveja peräkkäin loputtomasti rikkomatta kielioppisääntöjä.

Translation

Finnish language uses free form compound word forming - new words can be formed as necessary even if the middle of a conversation. This gives the opportunity to combine nouns in a row endlesly without breaking the grammar rules.

= Finnish is laguage with endlessly long words.  ;D

That's why I excluded compound words.

Now I'm beginning to understand....... ;D
2 + 3 = 23

June 01, 2011, 10:28:49 AM
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From Wikipedia:
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Suomen kielessä käytetään vapaata yhdyssanamuodostusta - uusia sanoja voidaan muodostaa tarpeen mukaan vaikka kesken keskustelun. Tämä antaa mahdollisuuden yhdistää substantiiveja peräkkäin loputtomasti rikkomatta kielioppisääntöjä.

Translation

Finnish language uses free form compound word forming - new words can be formed as necessary even if the middle of a conversation. This gives the opportunity to combine nouns in a row endlesly without breaking the grammar rules.

= Finnish is laguage with endlessly long words.  ;D

That's why I excluded compound words.

Now I'm beginning to understand....... ;D

Or do you mean Finnish people are uncorfortably talkative.  ;)

That is misconseption.

For example I activated another Finn this morning, and haven't heard a peep from him on the boards.
He did respond to my e-mail in clear Finnish, so he is not a bot.

June 02, 2011, 08:45:18 AM
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June 02, 2011, 08:54:22 AM
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Finland has also the heaviest "mosquitos".
They normally weigh 500-700 kilos (I think) but way heavier ones exsist.

I'll explain later, unless someone figures that out.  ;D