Re: Longest words

Matt wrote:

>   an-emuktinalim-if-alk-uh-ot-umo-mna
>   "... that we [exclusive] would not have liked to
>    continue to be as backwards as X"
In Swedish -- pseudo-polysynthetic as it is -- you can
create nouns such as "flaggstångsknoppspolerarutbildnings-
ansvarig" and go on and on until you run out of breath.

Nakiltipkaspimak can do the same with both nouns and
verbs.

"Milimpulakkipuktawikxutpimaksayukkim" -> A from the norm
in appearance substantially deviant, angry, drunk, fighting,
conlanger". You can keep prefixing adjectives to a noun until
you run out of adjectives (or air).

As for verbs, you can incorporate the object, which of
course can have a bus-load of adjectives giving a VP like:

"mimilimpulakkipuktawikxutkiwpiliktakatyasuntisitxutwikkulansip-
pawayumxa" (stress on the penultimate syllable) -> I am beginning
to make the from the norm in appearance substantially deviant,
angry, drunk, fighting, little boy cut hard, brown, imported wood.

71 letters. Phew. So what's the grand prize? ;)

||| daniel

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