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I have seen, and can't remember, the word for 'long shadows.' Assistance will be appreciated!
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There's a word for it? I would have thought 'long shadows' would have done the trick.
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How long should they be to deserve a special word?
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Ha....good question, Bran
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There's a word for it? I would have thought 'long shadows' would have done the trick. sorry to disappoint, but.. Main Entry: mac·ro·scian
Function: adjective
Etymology: Greek makroskios
: having or casting a long shadow
< that macroscian day which I had dreaded for so long -- Osbert Sitwell > [W3]
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There's a word for it? I would have thought 'long shadows' would have done the trick. sorry to disappoint, but.. Main Entry: mac·ro·scian
Function: adjective
Etymology: Greek makroskios
: having or casting a long shadow
< that macroscian day which I had dreaded for so long -- Osbert Sitwell > [W3] ooh, I like that word. welcome, jrp!
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< that macroscian day which I had dreaded for so long -- Osbert Sitwell > [W3]
I see, many hours long.
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Good discussion your question started. Welcome JRP
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"fr. Gk makros, long + skia, shadow] /muh KRASH iun/
[adj.] having a long shadow; [n] a person whose shadow
is long, spec. an inhabitant of the polar regions"
I bet in the polar regions the shadow projections must be the longest on earth? And in summer the days without end?
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macroscian
It's a great word, but unfortunately one would have to return to the easily understandable "long shadows" to gloss it, if one hoped to be understood by more than 0.05% of the Anglophone population.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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A word to put in a vitrine with other conversation pieces.
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I have it in my 'little black book of useless topics for
cocktail parties'. Now the word is not useless, but the
conversation at a cocktail party would be. .05% of the
Anglophone population, if that.
Last edited by LukeJavan8; 05/11/2011 3:28 PM.
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May we infer microscian as well?
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Can a person be macroscian? Figuratively, I mean. I seem to recall hearing/reading that so-and-so cast a long shadow; usually a person of great importance or power, at least in certain circles.
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We are all macroscian in the sunset of our lives.
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That would spoil the shadows, long or otherwise.
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Wow, that was good, Faldage! I was at first tempted to laugh, but I shall bow instead. [bow]
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macroscian
It's a great word, but unfortunately one would have to return to the easily understandable "long shadows" to gloss it, if one hoped to be understood by more than 0.05% of the Anglophone population. It also doesn't mean "long shadow." It means "having or casting a long shadow." And, looking it up in the OED, I discover it does have a noun meaning, but it's 'one who has a long shadow, an inhabitant of the polar regions.' So we still don't have a word for 'long shadows.'
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oh, just when we thought it solved.
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well, it seems to have been (yet another) drive-by posting - so who's complaining?
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oh, just when we thought it solved.
So we could change it to 'dark shadows'> there used to be a soap opera of that name.
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After all this I hardly dare ask if you have one word for 'long clouds' for me.
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Well--Aotearoa means "Land of the Long White Cloud" (New Zealand), which, acc'g. to Wikipedia could be shortened to aoroa--if that's an actual Maaori word I mean! ao = cloud, tea = white and roa = long Hey--you didn't specify English!  
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I should have thought of that 
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! ao = cloud, tea = white and roa = long Hey--you didn't specify English! I've been searching all sorts of exotic languages for the long shadow too. So I did not mean per se English. Old and Indian languages often have these one word sentences. Perfectly allright. Mrs. Longshadow ( what's the cup of tea has to do with it?  )
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Old and Indian languages often have these one word sentences.By Indian, you don't mean South Asian, I assume, but the native languages of North and South Americas? This is one of the problems with the X number of "words" for snow in Eskimo meme. You can see two examples in the article on polysynthetic languages ( link) on Wikipedia.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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I've been searching all sorts of exotic languages for the long shadow too..... So.... I am not the only one that spends hours surfing the net looking up little snippets of information. Not that I have done that much this week. But its what I do do 
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I've been searching all sorts of exotic languages for the long shadow too..... So.... I am not the only one that spends hours surfing the net looking up little snippets of information. Not that I have done that much this week. But its what I do do Count me in on that activity as well
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Yes, that's what I meant, the native languages of North and South Americas and the Arctic languages. But I gave up when I did not find the long shadow there.
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