2/5 Discussion Thread III

[hoagiegal1970]

Sesquipeda-wha?

You lost me there, sweetheart. ;D

[MarEla]

Are we like, bring topics back from the dead? We had a 1/5 hunter and books discussion sometime back in a original thread.

[Numbuh 0xFF]

sesquipedalian, n -> given to the overuse of long words;

It comes for the latin root meaning 'a foot and a half' which, by the way, is a reference to the length of the words. Nifty, isn't it? ;D

[KCG, M.D.]

wow... um... just wow...

ANYWAY, i discovered today that i could do the splits ;D ;D [/randomness]

I love how the fear of long words is like... [insert humongously long word here]phobia XDDD

edit: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia... thats just cruel...

[Numbuh 0xFF]

I know of two such words. There's the grandiose hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia and the more pedestrian sesquipedalophobia.

Cruel to the poor hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobic folks ain't it?

[hoagiegal1970]

See, MarEla? Reading--particularly reading dictionaries--opens up a whole world of weird words that no one else will even vaguely understand.

Great for mind expansion!

;D

[MarEla]

Madame Hoagie's Gal-It is!

hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia-My friend and I made this joke about it a while ago:

Doctor: I'm sorry, Bob. But you have this *holds up sign with hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia on it*
Bob: *Looks at sign, screams, then faints*

...It was pretty funny at the time...

[Numbuh 0xFF]

Yes! Cool words such as Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft.

Or the more familliar pneumono­ultra­micro­scopic­silico­volcano­coniosis.

It's a joyful world of sesquipedalian delights out there!

[hoagiegal1970]

I'm going to try and take a crack at figuring out what pneumono­ultra­micro­scopic­silico­volcano­coniosis means:

Pneumo=lungs
Ultramiroscopic=infinitely small
silicovolcano=silicone in the volcano

Is that a disease caused by inhaling smoke from a volcano eruption?

[Dreamer]

What the....?

Eh, seems funny. ;D

[MarEla]

Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft - The transport company calls themselves that?!

Anyone know the longest real word ever?



Smiles! there a mile between the S's!

pneumono­ultra­micro­scopic­silico­volcano­coniosis-a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, mostly found in volcanos.

You were really close!

[digigirl02]

Who says you can't learn online. My favorite long word?
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia,
@fanfics-you can use any of mine.www.fanfiction.net/s/3136506/1/ this one is my favorite one.

[Numbuh 0xFF]

Very close. It's what you get when you breathe very fine sillica dust found in, yes, volcanoes. The dust is fine enough to get to your lungs and sharp enough to cause major bleeding havoc. Mind you, if your passtimes include volcano-exploration you have other things to worry about aside from a lung disease.

@marela

Nuh-uh! Everyone knows it's beleaguered! A league is considerably longer than a mile y'know.

[Dreamer]

digigirl02 said:

Who says you can't learn unline.

I think I just learned there's an undiscovered language.

[dex]

Woah those are long words @-@
I had some kind of reading test today... Sadly, more than half was guessing on my part. I'm just glad it wasn't for a grade.

And on a 2/5 note, I caught like, 2 seconds of SPANK, and I loved the part where they were running and she grabbed his arm. Man, come to think of it... Those two do a lot of arm grabbing.
Someone needs to count that.