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Pia, 6 yr 221 days ago

ok but i promise i'll only PUNish you once a day ! ooooops sorry !


	Pemmican + 5646 Mon, 25 Aug 03 11:59 PM Oh dear, all these chemical and baffling words - do they really count? I'd say even the most children know the longest English word, it's so easy: "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" (34 letters!) That's incontestable, isn't it? What do you think? Pemmican Joined on Thu, Aug 21 2003 Regular Member 569 Wâ mag ich mich nu vinden? wâ mac ich mich nu suochen, wâ? nu bin ich hie und bin ouch dâ und enbin doch weder dâ noch hie. wer wart ouch sus verirret ie? wer wart ie sus...

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	hitchhiker + 5815 Tue, 26 Aug 03 06:21 PM You want chemical! Chemical name for the "Tryptophan Synthetase" protein methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleucylphenylalany lalanylglutaminylleucyllysylglutamylarginyllysylglutamylglycylalany lphenylalanylvalylprolylphenylalanylvalylthreonylleucylglycylaspa rtylprolylglycylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylserylleucyllysylisoleu cylaspartylthreonylleucylisoleucylglutamylalanylglycylalanylaspar tylalanylleucylglutamylleucylglycylisoleucylprolylphenylalanylser ylaspartylprolylleucylalanylaspartylglycylprolylthreonyliso leucylglutaminylaspfraginylalanylthreonylleucylarginylalanylpheny lalanylalanylalanylglycylvalylthreonylprolylalanylglutaminylcyste inylphenylalanylglutamylmethionylleucylalanylleucylisoleucylargin ylglutaminyllysylhistidylprolylthreonylisoleucylprolylisoleucylgl ycylleucylleucylmethionyltyrosylalanylasparaginylleucylvalylpheny lalanylasparaginyllysylglycylisoleucylaspartylglutamylphenylalany ltyrosylalanylglutaminylcysteinylglutamyllysylvalylglycylva lylaspartylserylvalylleucylvalylalanylaspartylvalylprolylvalylglu taminylglutamylserylalanylprolylphenylalanylarginylglutaminylalan ylalanylleucylarginylhistidylasparaginylvalylalanylprolylisoleucy lphenylalanylisoleucylcysteinylprolylprolylaspartylalanylaspartyl aspartylaspartylleucylleucylarginylglutaminylisoleucylalanylseryl tyrosylglycylarginylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrosylleucylleucylseryl arginylalanylglycylvalylthreonylglycylalanylglutamylasparag inylarginylalanylalanylleucylprolylleucylasparaginylhistidylleucy lvalylalanyllysylleucyllysylglutamyltyrosylasparaginylalanylalany lprolylprolylleucylglutaminylglycylphenylalanylglycylisoleucylser ylalanylprolylaspartylglutaminylvalyllysylalanylalanylisoleucylas partylalanylglycylalanylalanylglycylalanylisoleucylserylglycylser ylalanylisoleucylvalyllysylisoleucylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylhi stidylasparaginylisoleucylglutamylprolylglutamyllysylmethio nylleucylalanylalanylleucyllysylvalylphenylalanylvalylglutaminylp rolylmethionyllysylalanylalanylthreonylarginylserine. hitchhiker Joined on Mon, Nov 18 2002 Richmond, UK Senior Member 4,034 Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement...

maj, 6 yr 88 days ago

What is this? is it that the computer has crashed or is it that you have a serious crash on that girl?


	Woodward + 5820 Tue, 26 Aug 03 06:34 PM You spelt it wrong. 11th line, 15th letter should be a 'C' not an 'S'..... (As if I would know...lol) Try to say all that in one breathe! Woodward Joined on Tue, Jun 24 2003 A New Zealander in Chile Senior Member 2,747 Don't let schooling interfere with your education. www.grammar.cl - www.vocabulary.cl

moijelesuis, 6 yr 78 days ago

and i always heard the longest word was antidisestablishmentarianism (the scientific words are hardly english!)

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7818 Fri, 12 Sep 03 10:31 AM

It might be 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' (which appears in the Oxford English Dictionary), unless you want to count names of diseases (such as 'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis', defined by the OED as "a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust' but occurring chiefly as an instance of a very long word"), places (such as 'Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch', a village in Wales; see the Web site, which has an audio pronunciation of the word), chemical compounds (apparently there is one that is 1,913 letters long), and also a few words found only in Joyce's Finnegans Wake.

Other words famous for being sesquipedalian:

antidisestablishmentarianism ("opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England")
floccinaucinihilipilification
honorificabilitudinitatibus (Which appears in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost, and which has been cited as [dubious] evidence that Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays)
Or perhaps smiles is the longest word, because there's a mile between the first letter and the last

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	inglish + 7926 Sat, 13 Sep 03 11:58 AM Here is couple of examples which you might want to use the weird word I loved him for nothing so much as his floccinaucinihilipilification of money. They must be taken with an air of contempt, a floccinaucinihilipilification of all that can gratify the outward man. It was shock to all who were thinking him a floccinaucinihilipilification It proved theire floccinaucinihilipilification about him was worng *I doubt these sentences, I tried it by my own Ha haaaaa Its an award winning stunt. Wasnt it? inglish Longest Words


	Kompal + 8025 Sun, 14 Sep 03 10:38 AM Lolz Lolz that's sick...... Dichlorodyphanel oops some like that...dunno Ok there is a kind of game.. right? Hydrodynamics is the longest word in the world, those who can't spell it are the most stupest people. well not exactly, I don't reckon This a long word. :P :P :P Kompal Joined on Sun, Sep 14 2003 Pakistan New Member 37 ~Kompal` says: ~"Life is like a Web, Beautiful but a Trap"~ Longest Words

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