Re: Longest words

Robert Hailman sikayal:

> > I'm wondering, what's the longest word in a natural or constructed language
> > that you can think of (and spell correctly!)
Yivríndil, like German, forms numbers by piling a prefix onto the noun
that's being counted, so the length of the word is only limited by how
high you can count.  Still, supposing I keep myself under 100 and avoid
compounding nouns, I can still string together:

kuvasimkuiyaanarainevosar
"to a few of my fify-two lonely men"

Or with verbs:

tokeremevehatakrainyentas?
Would [subject] have to strongly want to be not have been a bond?

Once again, if I allowed compounding of roots and larger numbers, I could
go on ad infinitum.

Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu

"If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are
perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in
frightful danger of seeing it for the first time."
--G.K. Chesterton

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