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Looks like Helen and I entered the same auto-correct remarks at exactly the same time. What are the odds of that? Quote:
Seems like someone could have done better for L10n and i18n. No matter, if people know what it means
Well, L10n looks a little bit like "lion" if it helps any. If this is adopted I hope to be lionized accordingly. I could not resist, Jackie. Please forgive. After all I am a Leo.
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Red Skelton said the longest word in English follows the phrase "And now a word from our sponsor." It gets longer and longer!
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Mercer--I actually came to post here thinking of "antidisestablishmentarianism" which my Bible teacher taught me in religious high school, LOL.
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I think I've posted this here before, but. when someone in the antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters) longword camp discovered that the longest word in OED was floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters), they went right out and coined the word pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism.or, is there no end to this madness?!
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just as most WPP will auto correct teh and replace it with the.
And I do wish they wouldn't. Teh is a perfectly good Indonesian word meaning tea.
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Is there a word which describes, or otherwise articulates, the propensity for using a longer, more obscure and, mostly unpronouncable, word in favour of another, equally descriptive, single word? The shorter word is, perhaps, better understood and usually half the length of its more pretentious alternate.
"Internationalization" requires two whole sentences to tell us what it could mean; "honorificabilitudinity" is explained as, "honorableness". Why do we need h20y any more than we need Floccinaucinihilpillification to describe something as worthless?
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Are you thinking of sesquipedalian?
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Darn - beat me to it. Sesquipedalian is the mot juste. I like that word because it is self-describing, like "polysyllabic". Unlike self-negating words like "monosyllabic" or "quotidian"
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I always have liked
Konstantinopolitanischedudelsackpfeifenmachergesellschaft
(Bagpipe-pipe maker company of Constantinople)--Wikipedia
I've found variations with different spellings
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Why do we need h20y any more than we need Floccinaucinihilpillification to describe something as worthless?
actually, I believe floccinaucinihilpilification is the *classification of something as worthless; perhaps this is slightly less worthless, he queried with questionable floccinaucinihilpilification?!
edit: oops, only one 'l' in pilification.
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