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Re: Longest words

From:Daniel44 <daniel44@...>
Date:Friday, May 4, 2001, 12:04
'nokommunismikirojarakahojanhakkovahojansoikalullatatsta' (55 letters)

trans: 'from his cute scholars of anti-communism book-loving'


You get the idea...

Daniel
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Johansson" <and_yo@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 8:06 AM
Subject: Re: Longest words


> I wrote: > >'Materia-antimateria-annihilationskraftverksbygge', 46 letters, not > >counting > >the hyphens. > >It's strained, to my native ears, but acceptable Swedish for
"construction
> >of a matter-antimatter annihilation power plant". I could probably think
up
> >something even longer, but can't seem to summon the enthusiasm for it. > > [Slap myself in my head] > Of course , adding _-nas_ gives the 49 letter definite plural genitive
form
> ... > > > Andreas > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. >