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

So, using adjectives = "disguis[ing] the fact"? Interesting. Evidently,
German is the only non-disguised language (and "chile relleno con carne
asada" should really be "chilerellenoconcarneasada," and it's English
translation shouldn't be "stufffed peppers with grilled beef*" but
"stuffedpepperswithgrilledbeef;" yeah, good luck with that).

*Yes, I know that "carne" is technically "meat," not "beef;" lo se.
However, it's almost exclusively used for "beef," since other meats would
be specified (e.g., pollo asado), so I went with "beef" as a more accurate
translation in this case.


On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Felmon Davis <davisf@union.edu> wrote:

> 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.
> > >
> > >
> > >  Taumata­whakatangihanga­koauau­o­tamatea­turi­
> > pukakapiki­maunga­horo­nuku­pokai­whenua­kitanatahu
> >
> > > (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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