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Post by hermoine on Sept 4, 2004 7:08:36 GMT -5
I'm just wondering how a person with the fear of long words can tell anyone about their problem when they're afraid of the word itself. You'd think that someone would be nice enough to come up with a shorter term for it. Yeah. It would be better to just say I am afraid of long words, anyway.Here's my favourite long word: Antidisestablishmentarianism D, what does this word mean exactly.
Try and wonder what this is.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
Can you believe that's actually a village in Wales? Imagine, someone lives in that place and you go to that person to ask him/her where he/she lives. By the time they're finished saying it, you'd be like "Um, sorry, could you repeat that please?"
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Post by Will on Sept 4, 2004 12:05:50 GMT -5
-falls over-
Are you serious?! It just looks like a string of random letters... I'd probably just call it Llan and stop there. How on earth did you find this?
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Post by hermoine on Sept 4, 2004 17:48:04 GMT -5
It was easy. I did a long words search on Google, and found this on Dicitionary.com. There were some others. Would you like to hear more?
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Post by Will on Sept 5, 2004 18:47:55 GMT -5
Ah, I see... The things we humans come up with -shakes head- I'm amazed.
Sure, I'd like to hear more. It'll keep me entertained during this drag of a Labor Day weekend...
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Post by hermoine on Sept 6, 2004 3:42:03 GMT -5
This is the name of a disease: 'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis' which is a factitious word alleged to mean a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust.
And while checking again there was written that a chemical compoun 1,913 letters long! It would take even longer to say that you're from that place in Wales.
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Post by hermoine on Sept 18, 2004 11:07:08 GMT -5
My word for the day is whortleberry because it took my something like 30 minutes to figure out what it was. I looked it up in the dictionary but found nothing. Then I found it on an English to Maltese dictionary, but I was still confused. I couldn't use the internet; the computer was occupied.
Good thing I found it in the encyclopedia.
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Post by Will on Sept 21, 2004 20:32:09 GMT -5
...And what did you find? Was it some kind of berry... ?
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Post by hermoine on Sept 22, 2004 1:26:47 GMT -5
Yeah, it's name is also blueberry. It said that in can be mistaken for hortleberry which it isn't although they are very similar.
New words, pour moi! ;D Inure...that means to get used to.
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Post by Will on Sept 22, 2004 18:07:42 GMT -5
It's the same as a blueberry?! Interesting...
Hey, 'Moine, do you happen to know any Italian?
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Post by hermoine on Sept 23, 2004 1:14:48 GMT -5
Yes I do. Why Willow?
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Post by Will on Sept 24, 2004 22:21:50 GMT -5
Hehe... Because I really, really want to learn Italian and I'm not sure how to start... Could a book actually help me? Or maybe I should listen to a tape instead?
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Post by hermoine on Sept 25, 2004 5:07:41 GMT -5
I learned to speak in italian through watching italian TV every day. What would I do without the italian channels?
But a book would be a good idea too. There are some things which differ in grammar. Like for example 'ce' the c would have the sound of 'ch' while in 'che' the sound would be like a k.
I'll be starting to learn italian next year. Yepee!
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Post by Will on Sept 25, 2004 16:35:12 GMT -5
-jealous- I want Italian channels!!! That would be sooooo cool.
I tried learning off a book, but it was so confusing... You wanna teach me once you learn more? ;D
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Post by hermoine on Sept 26, 2004 2:03:35 GMT -5
Personally I don't know how we get italian channels but every family with a TV and its license gets it.
I could try, but believe me I'm no pro. And I'll start learning it next summer so I dunno if you could be that patient.
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Post by Will on Oct 1, 2004 20:33:14 GMT -5
Hmmm... I was just wondering, do you know how to say... or write 'truth', 'ambition' and 'wisdom' in Italian?
...I'm going off topic aren't I? Er...
I really like the word 'manumission' for some reason.
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