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> Ted&Alice Street wrote:
> > Alex W. wrote:
> > 
> > > On 07/03/2016 17:23, Ted&Alice wrote:
> > > > On Monday, March 7, 2016 at 9:57:37 AM UTC, Alex W. wrote:
> > > > > On 06/03/2016 18:20, Ted&Alice Street wrote:
> > > > > > Alex W. wrote:
> > > > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > > Let me get this right -- your Polish mate "Bob"
> > > > > Brzenczyszczykiewicz who originally hailed from Pszczółczyn
> > > > > pronounces all those consonants?
> > > > > 
> > > > > The mind boggles.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Haha! :)
> > > > 
> > > > Well as you know yourself, German is also phonetic, and the way
> > > > the Germans like to fit together multiple words into one
> > > > (without leaving any traces of a stitch in between) is almost
> > > > as daunting to those of us who're mostly ignorant of that
> > > > language.
> > > 
> > > That name, BTW, was not an invention if mine.  I googled it.
> > 
> > Wow, I would have bet that you'd just made it up. The szcz
> > combination is common (and Cyrillic devotes a single letter to it,
> > IIRC), but I didn't know they could also stick an additional cz in
> > front of it. I'd think it would be a challenge for anybody to
> > pronounce quickly.
> > 
> > > 
> > > German is comparatively easy: it has rigid rules, a far smaller
> > > vocabulary than English, and the practice of creating new words by
> > > sticking together the appropriate smaller words follows rules, too
> > > (and is usually easily deducible.
> > > 
> > > Thus, it is relatively easy to disentangle the
> > > "Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz",
> > > or the law regulating the ministerial competence for supervising
> > > the correct labelling of beef.
> > > 
> > > Similarly, it is quite easy to decypher
> > > "Ver­kehrs­infra­struk­tur­fi­nan­zierungs­ge­sell­schafts­ge­setz
> > > " as the law regulating the state body financing traffic
> > > infrastructure.
> > > 
> > > And yes, all these are pronounced the way they are written, so
> > > take that, Poland!
> > > 
> > 
> > Haha. Those words are very daunting, to say the least. I knew they
> > had long words, but I hadn't known they were that long! :)
> > 
> > Good for you that you're able to just rattle them off. Do you speak
> > German regularly, or just when you travel to the continent?
> 
> Below is the full 189,819-lettered word for 'titin':
> 
>

Wow! (I had to delete it from my response because my usenet software
won't accept that many characters!)

What does it mean?

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Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-05 13:55 +0000
  Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love "Ted&Alice Street" <sam.tedesco@notgmail.c> - 2016-03-05 15:27 +0000
    Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-06 09:52 +0000
      Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love "Ted&Alice Street" <sam.tedesco@notgmail.c> - 2016-03-06 12:35 +0000
        Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-06 13:02 +0000
          Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love "Ted&Alice Street" <sam.tedesco@notgmail.c> - 2016-03-06 13:57 +0000
            Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-06 16:55 +0000
              Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love "Ted&Alice Street" <sam.tedesco@notgmail.c> - 2016-03-06 18:20 +0000
                Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-07 09:57 +0000
                Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love "Ted&Alice" <ted.smasher@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 09:23 -0800
                Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-07 18:31 +0000
                Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love "Ted&Alice Street" <sam.tedesco@notgmail.c> - 2016-03-08 23:46 +0000
                Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love "Ted&Alice Street" <sam.tedesco@notgmail.c> - 2016-03-09 22:38 +0000
              Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love Smiler <smiler@jo.king> - 2016-03-06 19:02 +0000
                Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-06 19:22 +0000
                Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love Don Martin <drdonmartin@comcast.net> - 2016-03-06 15:15 -0500
                Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love Olrik <olrik666@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 00:11 -0500
                Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love Don Martin <drdonmartin@comcast.net> - 2016-03-07 18:30 -0500
                Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-07 12:03 +0000
                Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love Smiler <smiler@jo.king> - 2016-03-07 19:32 +0000

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