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WCDT Strips 3341 to 3345 (31st October to 4th November 2016)
Case:
(Double-posted & then decided to split. Sorry, folks!)
--- Quote from: Storel on 03 Nov 2016, 00:12 ---Basically, folks, where English uses multiword phrases, German uses multiword words. No matter how long, any phrase can be made into a compound word in German. Trust me. I'm sure Case can cite even longer examples than mine if there's any lingering doubt. :-D
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Since Germans regard that property of their language with the same mixture of horrified delight and morbid fascination as the rest of the world, that is not a difficult task to carry out: The officially longest word used in the German language (note: you can make endless compound words in German, the criterion is that it's actually used by people) was, until very recently *drumroll*
"Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz" (RkReÜAÜG) (Beeflabellingmonitoringtaskstransfer(by)law),
The proud 63-letter monstrosity served as title of a law within the constitution of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania that regulates how "tasks relating to the monitoring of the labelling of beef for commercial sale are transferred". And yes, that one was actually used.
Rumour has it that the unofficial motto of the "Association for the German Language" is: "To boldly go where no language has gone before".
(And if your morbid curiosity is not yet satisfied: This page should do nicely)
JimC:
> The proud 63-letter monstrosity served
Speaking of served, that's just a grunt compared to the supposed name of a dish served up in one of Classical Greek author Aristophanes' comedies - 171 letters.
While I tend to despise Wikipedia as a source, it will do for this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon
Is it cold in here?:
>the last panel seems to suggest he has a suppressed 'darker side'
Who doesn't?
Case:
--- Quote from: JimC on 03 Nov 2016, 10:51 ---https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon
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Mmmmmhmmm, Laserwort! Yummy! (σίλφιον (sílphion, “laserwort”))
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 03 Nov 2016, 10:59 --->the last panel seems to suggest he has a suppressed 'darker side'
Who doesn't?
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"seems to suggest he has a suppressed 'darker side' similar to Hanners' ..." :-\
Tova:
Yes, and who doesn't? :evil:
I was actually thinking that line would have sounded natural from Marten as well.
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