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longest Esperanto word

di etala, 24 gennaio 2011

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Lingua: English

darkweasel (Mostra il profilo) 24 gennaio 2011 14:35:05

Miland:
darkweasel:I once used supersignanstataŭigmetodoj on the Esperanto-language lernu! board.
Is this about codes for emoticons?
Not really, it's a term to describe the h- and x-system (and comparable systems in other languages).

(Not having found my use of it using the search feature, I guess I actually used it elsewhere.)

Miland (Mostra il profilo) 24 gennaio 2011 14:37:42

darkweasel:
Miland:
darkweasel:I once used supersignanstataŭigmetodoj on the Esperanto-language lernu! board.
Is this about codes for emoticons?
Not really, it's a term to describe the h- and x-system (and comparable systems in other languages).
Of course, that makes better sense, dankon.

erinja (Mostra il profilo) 24 gennaio 2011 15:35:54

I feel like there must be a common word that's longer than 16 letters. Lingvolernanto is common and that's 14 letters. Transpagipova, 12 letters. A very long compound will probably be made up of two relatively long roots, plus perhaps one suffix.

Esperanto rarely combines more than two roots, and rarely more than two affixes. So it's my guess that Esperanto's "longest common word" won't be longer than two roots plus two affixes.

We tend not to extend further than that because words become difficult to parse and understand. Esperanto definitely isn't as compound-happy as German.

Miland (Mostra il profilo) 24 gennaio 2011 16:22:52

Looking at my own notebook I made up biomalkomponebleco ("biodegradability") which has 18 letters. To be honest, in my view we would be more likely to use the plain adjective biomalkomponebla ("biodegradable"), which has 16 letters. On the other hand, we might hope to find biomalkomponeblaĵoj, which has 19 letters. rideto.gif

darkweasel (Mostra il profilo) 24 gennaio 2011 16:29:08

Using the Akademia Vortaro, I have compiled a list of the longest official roots, all of which have 12 letters:

ADMINISTRACI/
AŬTOBIOGRAFI/
DEMONSTRATIV/
DISKRIMINACI/
KONSERVATORI/
PALEONTOLOGI/
PARALELOGRAM/
SPIRITUALISM/
SPIRITUALIST/
TRIGONOMETRI/

Miland (Mostra il profilo) 24 gennaio 2011 16:34:24

darkweasel:Using the Akademia Vortaro,..DISKRIMINACI/..
That suggests kontraŭdiskriminaciaj (leĝoj) which has 21 letters!

ceigered (Mostra il profilo) 24 gennaio 2011 16:58:22

Miland:
ceigered:..gigantic words like ektertekst-etcetc (no way I'm rewriting that lango.gif) are silly..
Ekstertera has 9 letters, while eksterterulo has 12 letters. The English word "extraterrestrial" has 16 letters. Facts are good, aren't they? rido.gif
12 letter eksterterulo* vs the
Ekstertekstprilaborilularanindkunvenejetegmanierismo (52 letters? I think I miscounted, with error of maybe 1 or 2) I was referring to?

Hardly big at all rido.gif

(Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch has 58)

RE kontraŭdiskriminacio, perhaps kontraŭdiskriminiciadvokatuniversitatkurso, for an anti-discrimination laywer university course. Although all of those at the end could be separated, but goes to show you can have anything really.

*On a more practical note, the yet-to-find-decent-usage-for-obvious-reasons word "xenolinguistics" may present a problem for direct translation, since you'd end up with "eksterterulalingvoscienco" (25 letters?), god forbid we talk about a xenolinguist (eksterterulalingvosciencisto). Cutting out the -ula- could save some letters but then that simply means outside earth linguistics vs. outside earthian linguistics.

Scifi writers can have fun with that.

The Wikipedia page on the subject in English, basically same thing as Darkweasel's comments.

Anyway, someone needs this translated to EO:
Scientific name for Titin

darkweasel (Mostra il profilo) 24 gennaio 2011 17:08:25

ceigered, instead of lingvosciencisto you can use the much shorter lingvisto.

ceigered (Mostra il profilo) 24 gennaio 2011 17:20:10

darkweasel:ceigered, instead of lingvosciencisto you can use the much shorter lingvisto.
That completely skipped my mind. Does it still mean the same thing? E.g. could a linguist also just be a fan of languages rather than someone who studies them as if they were biology etc? (I mean, we are talking about "biggest words" which generally have superfluous parts to them anyway, but that aside).

darkweasel (Mostra il profilo) 24 gennaio 2011 17:24:01

ceigered:
darkweasel:ceigered, instead of lingvosciencisto you can use the much shorter lingvisto.
That completely skipped my mind. Does it still mean the same thing?
According to ReVo, yes.

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