Re: Longest words

Andreas Johansson scripsit:
> Daniel44 wrote:
> >Hei koikitin, (Hey everyone)
> >
> >I'm wondering, what's the longest word in a natural or constructed language
> >that you can think of (and spell correctly!)
The usual English candidate for "longest word" that's actually been used in live
contexts is "ultramicroscopicosilicovolcanoconiosis", a kind of silicosis.
Of course, one can concoct arbitrarily long chemical terms; in particular,
there is a method of naming proteins that involves using combining morphs
for each of the amino acids in the protein chain.

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