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Message 2135920 - Posted: 16 May 2024, 20:29:43 UTC - in response to Message 2135687.  
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Othewise-we-go-all-German?
I strongly support this. I never understood why you break words down into pieces to write them down separately. A strange habit... ;-)

And if I get to follow a posting of 'Shakespeare' I am going to post 'Strafford–upon–Avon' (En dashes)
Btw. in German we would write: "Strafford upon Avon" without any dashes. Why form a compound word from several different ones? .... strange habits.

example: Bavarian medieval town "Rothenburg ob der Tauber"
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Message 2135929 - Posted: 17 May 2024, 3:29:25 UTC - in response to Message 2135920.  
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Why form a compound word from several different ones? .... strange habits.

Indeed.

With the dashes you can see it is compounded, as opposed to this German example, Kraftfahrzeughaftpflichtversicherung where a non-German doesn't have a clue about the separate words.
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Message 2135941 - Posted: 17 May 2024, 11:44:51 UTC - in response to Message 2135929.  
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With the dashes you can see it is compounded, as opposed to this German example, Kraftfahrzeughaftpflichtversicherung where a non-German doesn't have a clue about the separate words.
Okay, I meant "jointed" or "merged". Mark Twain named them "compound words" in the chapter "The Awful German Language" in his book "A Tramp Abroad" (1880).

You quoted the longest word from dictionaries. There are many much longer ones. But dictionaries must draw the line somewhere, so it leaves this sort of words out. Currently the longest (67 characters) is: Grundstücksverkehrsgenehmigungszuständigkeitsübertragungsverordnung, a former federal law dealing with land conveyance permissions.

Grundstücksverkehrsgenehmigungszuständigkeitsübertragungsverordnung, abbreviated: GrundVZÜV
Regulation on the delegation of authority concerning land conveyance permissions

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Message 2135943 - Posted: 17 May 2024, 13:44:53 UTC

The beast I have is when the post you want has two words and is referred as two words by everyone on the planet. Example is New York.

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Message 2135948 - Posted: 17 May 2024, 16:56:19 UTC

Just posting one of the words can really make folks scratch their heads and lurch the game off in unexpected ditections
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Message 2136109 - Posted: 22 May 2024, 7:06:50 UTC

I couldn’t put the word I wanted. “T” I would have been labeled political and hidden.

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Message 2136119 - Posted: 22 May 2024, 9:11:56 UTC - in response to Message 2136109.  

Use the word F..t instead??

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Message 2136124 - Posted: 22 May 2024, 12:11:29 UTC - in response to Message 2136119.  

Flatulence is such a great word :-)
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Message 2136478 - Posted: 30 May 2024, 1:08:16 UTC

Harmony Week is an expansion of Harmony Day here down under.

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Message 2136497 - Posted: 30 May 2024, 19:12:03 UTC

What does so Beit mean?
if it be so that; provided that
conjunction. , Archaic. if it be so that; provided that.

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Message 2136897 - Posted: 9 Jun 2024, 19:39:42 UTC

Toasters might be a little left field. When I saw the word incentive I immediately thought of the incentive we all had when we joined Seti@home. Free toaster. Or was that for opening a bank account?
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Message 2136899 - Posted: 9 Jun 2024, 20:26:08 UTC - in response to Message 2136897.  

I thought it was the incentive for having one old version of MS Windows?
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Message 2138809 - Posted: 27 Jul 2024, 0:10:54 UTC

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Message 2139191 - Posted: 6 Aug 2024, 9:37:10 UTC

Carlos wrote:

Crenelated
I think that you got that wrong Julie.
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Message 2139195 - Posted: 6 Aug 2024, 12:56:43 UTC

I did write crenelated but that was months ago. Wiggo had the last word. In the prior thread, but looks like we have a new start. It's just for fun anyway.
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Message 2139593 - Posted: 18 Aug 2024, 19:06:45 UTC

Ben (film)

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Message 2139595 - Posted: 18 Aug 2024, 19:21:14 UTC - in response to Message 2139593.  

Nice obtuse connection Martin :-)
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Message 2139601 - Posted: 18 Aug 2024, 20:30:38 UTC - in response to Message 2139595.  

Nice obtuse connection Martin :-)

Better than what I was thinking Hoss.

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Message 2139750 - Posted: 23 Aug 2024, 0:04:58 UTC

Cargo Cults were a thing in the past.

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Message 2140390 - Posted: 8 Sep 2024, 12:58:13 UTC
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For a very good giggle:

Worms (series)
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