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Red-Chocolate

PostPosted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 5:57 pm
Chaotic Nitemare
Floccinaucinihilipilification. Say it. It rolls off your tongue. :b


Now I'm concerned...I know this one too! Am I really that bored? crying  
PostPosted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 2:36 pm
It's kind of crazy how the true long words don't appear in the dictionary but in medical and engineering books. xd  

Zealot of Insanity


Danapal

PostPosted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 11:03 am
Superfluous, for it is imperative to know the superfluous meticulously, for life is so extraneously labyrinthine.

Superfluous isn't really the longest word I know, but my favorite word.  
PostPosted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 1:08 pm
hyphens don't count. right?

exacerbated

or

aforementioned

( well they're not really long but they sound important!) ^_~

well at least i'm talking about normal conversation words  

dianersj


Elanchana

PostPosted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:57 pm
Antidisestablishmentarianism is the longest one I could think of off the top of my head. But I found an even longer one in Guiness World Records 2006.  
PostPosted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:16 pm
Red-Chocolate
Yami no Hitokiri
pneumonultramicroscopiccsiliavolcaniconiosis: Some kind of lung condition that comes from ihaling volcanic dust.


I've heard that one too! I can't spell it though, maybe someday! sweatdrop


That lung desease word is debated to be a hoax. It was mentioned on wikipedia (Ok, yeah, I cheated stressed ; but it was also out of interest! Honest!)

Wikipedia.com: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word~
Quote:
The longest word in any major English language dictionary is pneumo­noultra­microscopic­silico­volcano­coniosis, a 45-letter word supposed to refer to a lung disease, but research has discovered that this word was originally intended as a hoax. It has since been used in a close approximation of its originally intended context, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim. See the separate article for details.

The Guinness Book of Records, in its 1992 and subsequent editions, declared the "longest real word" in the English language to be flocci­nauci­nihili­pili­fication at 29 letters (More recent editions of the book have since aknowledged pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis). Defined as "the act of estimating (something) as worthless"
 

Ramda


IgnisAether

PostPosted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:50 pm
HEPATICO­CHOLANGIO­CHOLECYST­ENTERO­STOMIES = a surgical connection thingie about the gall bladder and intestines...

....I was too lazy to look it up, sorry -__-;;

Why the hell do I know these words at my age....*sighs, walking off to sob*  
PostPosted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:00 am
METHYLCHLOROISOTHIAZOLINONE:
Is found in Pert Plus shampoo, according to John Carroll.  

Toshiatsu


[Riyuu]

PostPosted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:43 pm
Long words are okay...

I just think that if you use too many of them to sound smart, or just becos' you enjoy to use really long words, you end up sounding like a complete dolt.
 
PostPosted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:46 pm
Supposedly in the hebrew language, the true name of God, is 216 letters long.  

[Riyuu]


Ind1v1dual

Invisible Gaian

PostPosted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 8:12 pm
-laughs-
I am enjoying these long words.
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