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Longest word in your language.
UncleBob:
Had to look it up to get the correct spelling...
Just now tried to post it...
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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.
Arseen:
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.
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;D
UncleBob:
Then, next up, we've got Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon
Arseen:
Nice One, but seens to be combination word as well.
Tera, para, hypo and kephallio, at least start new words in Greek (and English).
;)
Arseen:
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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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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