Re: [libreoffice-users] English language---was Re: Spell Check Dictionary

On 05/23/2014 12:37 PM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
> On 05/23/2014 11:54 AM, Doug wrote:
> > On 05/23/2014 02:53 AM, David Love wrote:
> > > MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > The longest word in any English language is the name of a small 
> > > > town in
> > > > Wales - Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyllllantysiliogogogoch 
> > > > (see
> > > > Wikipedia if you're curious about what and where this is). I had
> > > > thought it was 56 letters, but this one is 59.  Hmm.
> > > Sorry, that's the second longest.  The longest is in the North 
> > > Island of
> > > New Zealand.
> Sounds like it was Māori in origin and became part of the en_ZA language.
>
> > > Taumata­whakatangihanga­koauau­o­tamatea­turi­pukakapiki­maunga­horo­nuku­pokai­whenua­kitanatahu 
> > >
> > > (85 letters) which means  "The summit where Tamatea, the man with 
> > > the big
> > > knees, the climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled 
> > > about,
> > > played his nose flute to his loved one"
> > >
> > >
> > > See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_long_place_names
> > >
> > > David
> > I would have to say that the big word above is not English.
> >
> > German is a language where there really _are_ long words in the 
> > language,
> > since German, much more than English, strings words together to make
> > longer ones. We have things like fireplace and carwash. (Fireplace
> > translates directly: Feuerplatz.) If you ask the average German what is
> > the longest word, he is likely to tell you,
> >               "Oberweserdampfschiffahrtgeschäftskapitän"
> > which also happens to be the name of a song! (Perhaps the word was
> > invented by the songwriter?) Translating, it means the "Upper Weser
> > excursion boat company captain."  But my German teacher, eons ago,
> > told me about a word of 100 letters, involving a a miscreant Hottentot
> > from Trödelstadt who was jailed in a latticework kangaroo cage for 
> > killing
> > his mother-in-law. I suppose it might actually have existed, back when
> > Germany had a presence in Africa.
> >
> > --doug
>
> Any word used in use in the language, can become part of the language 
> as more and more people use it.
>
> English came into being as more and more groups came to "England" and 
> became part of its early language/culture.  There was a multi-part PBS 
> about the origin of the "modern" British English language - i.e. up to 
> around the 1800's.
I'll bet there aren't more thn 50 people in the world who use 
"Taumata­whakatangihanga­koauau­o­tamatea­turi­pukakapiki­maunga­horo­nuku­pokai­whenua­kitanatah"! 


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