Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Spell Check Dictionary

On Fri, 23 May 2014, 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.
> 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

we do it too in English but disguise the fact. we write "airport 
parking garage manager" instead of "airportparkinggaragemanager."

F.

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Felmon Davis

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