Re: CHAT: Opperlands

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> > > I once saw "Hottentottentantenattentatentdter" given for German.
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> > You mean Hottentottentantenattentaeter?
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> I mean "Hottentotten-tanten-attentaten-t=E4ter" --- perpetrator of an
> assassination of a Hottentot aunt.
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> > Is this a South African  nanny gone bad, or what is this  :-)
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> Just a very long word.
And an especially silly one, I see.  The actual word is attentaeter;
attentatentaeter would be something like "assassinationist"
(assassination - doer).  Not that an attentaeter has neccessarily
assassinated anyone, they just have to have made the attempt -- this
is a good sort of definition I think -- someone who tries to kill
someone else isn't morally any different from an actual assassin for
having failed

JJS=20