What's the longest Esperanto word you've seen?

Putting tekst into the dictionary got me tekstoprilaborilo "word processor" which is the longest word I've ever seen, though it could hypothetically be lengthened to tekstoprilaborilulo "word processing person".

etala:What's the longest Esperanto word you've seen?

Putting tekst into the dictionary got me tekstoprilaborilo "word processor" which is the longest word I've ever seen, though it could hypothetically be lengthened to tekstoprilaborilulo "word processing person".

Well, technically we could go on all day.

Ekstertekstprilaborilularanindkunvenejetegmanierismo = A doctrine of mannners of the style of being outside a (larger than normal?)* small assembly place worthy of members of a group of word processing fellows.

That could be the manners one is expected to use when at a relatively small meeting place for text editor users when that place is larger than most other small meeting places but still not large enough to be classed as normal. Or, as the * indicates, it's possible that this etega place is intensely small, so much more greatly so than any thing else. Perhaps this meeting is occurring in the cleaner's closet because all the other normal meeting places were booked out, yet it is still somehow worthy of these text editor users (rather insultingly I'd imagine)? Either way, the idea is that the small place is clearly cramped or clearly more vast than usual, and one must use different manners or something like that
EDIT: Yeah, it's "intensely small", not "larger than normal small". I created this monstrosity and still don't 100% understand it

Anyone feel like beefing that one up, and continuing it's English definition? .

Generally though, "longest words" are normally rare or constructed on purpose, (like the antiantiantiantiantiantiantiantiantiantiantiantiantiantiantiantiantiantiantiantidrug league), and not preferable, e.g. "tekstprilaborilo" could be shortened to "tekstilo" (text tool), except where tekstilo could mean something else. "Tekstlaborilo" is also good, as that "pri" is rather superfluous for this particular construction. After all, in Modern English we call most word processors by their brand name, and "MS Word" clearly doesn't describe the traits of a text editor with precision.

ceigered:

Ekstertekstprilaborilularanindkunvenejetegmanierismo = A doctrine of mannners of the style of being outside a (larger than normal?)* small assembly place worthy of members of a group of word processing fellows.

That could be the manners one is expected to use when at a relatively small meeting place for text editor users when that place is larger than most other small meeting places but still not large enough to be classed as normal. Or, as the * indicates, it's possible that this etega place is intensely small, so much more greatly so than any thing else. Perhaps this meeting is occurring in the cleaner's closet because all the other normal meeting places were booked out, yet it is still somehow worthy of these text editor users (rather insultingly I'd imagine)? Either way, the idea is that the small place is clearly cramped or clearly more vast than usual, and one must use different manners or something like that
EDIT: Yeah, it's "intensely small", not "larger than normal small". I created this monstrosity and still don't 100% understand it

Anyone feel like beefing that one up, and continuing it's English definition? .

Errrr, Hmmmm. Your explanation sortof looks like something i might see in a Terry Pratchet book. Having mentioned that, "Etego" could possably describe a form of Tardis. Therefore, the word processing fellows might be meeting in a room that appears tiny on the outside, but a large room on the inside. I suppose "Egeto" would be large on the outside, but tiny on the inside! It could be done, although why, i do not know.

Has anyone tried to write science fiction in Esperanto before? Ooh the possabilities

chrisim101010:Errrr, Hmmmm. Your explanation sortof looks like something i might see in a Terry Pratchet book. Having mentioned that, "Etego" could possably describe a form of Tardis. Therefore, the word processing fellows might be meeting in a room that appears tiny on the outside, but a large room on the inside. I suppose "Egeto" would be large on the outside, but tiny on the inside! It could be done, although why, i do not know.

I'll take that as one of the highest compliments a man could be awarded with

As for -eteg- meaning small yet big, well, I pondered that a while back but basically eg after et or et after eg would intensify/soften the effect of the first word, e.g. eteg = intensely small, eget = barely great. Well, normally. I'm sure there's a way to get that big yet small yet big effect somehow, and now I'm curious as to how that'd be possible - Heck, eteg actually could work, since while the eg would normally effect et, the wordplay-joke could be that the eg doesn't refer to et but to the rest of the word, thus giving the reader/listener/characters in a book a false impression of the dimensions of this object.

That is very funny. The counter examples are even funnier. I think though to keep with the true goal of Esperanto, surely there should be a simpler way to say it. How about just typist, and then one could say computer typist? I'd have to look up those words myself as I'm still learning Esperanto. I think that impractical creative use of the language should be kept for personal agendas and artistic works as long as it doesn't cause people to be unable to understand.

It's like this, some foreign songs sound great, but they're not so fun as they are not easily understood, or not understood at all. If a song isn't for all the family and you can't teach the children, then, it's going to be limited. It's sort of like hearing someone whispering loadly and it's not polite to whisper in front of others. Unfortunately, most in the world do not care much about manners nowadays.

I'm glad that some diminutives in Esperanto turned out not to be cutsey. It had me worried though as I'd been originally taught that there's one word and only one word to say things. So saying mommy and daddy may seem just adding human coolness to the language but if it was a public work or a legal document, one thing can lead to another and then, Esperanto could end up being as big of a linguistic monster as other languages in it's own way.

I am not against my own language or any other but I do think that all should be reasonably cooperative to help get people out of the trouble with the sort of Tower of Bable tragedy. It is unethical and morally immature for adults to purposely make writings difficult to understand. Some misguided people think that makes it so only the right sort can understand. That's total nonsense. It's not like the creme de la creme in essential labor like the space program and the height of medical research goes around trying to fool folks and acting like only the unfooled are the moral ones. They get their job done and communicate clearly. Fun is fine, but horsing around even linguistically for serioius situations professionally and socially is not fun or funny at all.

Etala did ask about words we've seen, so suppose we impose a reasonable constraint: words used in reputable printed literature, or used in conversation or writing, in actual experience, that we remember. What is the longest word you remember subject to that? I can't think of any that stands out a mile; lots of words over 10 letters long are liable to be Esperantised words taken from national languages with minimal modifications.

Let's say that Etala's tekstoprilaborilo set the ball rolling with 16 letters. I can't think of a longer one off hand.

Remember, words from the real world, not scifi or fantasy.

klnptrs78:It is unethical and morally immature for adults to purposely make writings difficult to understand. Some misguided people think that makes it so only the right sort can understand. That's total nonsense.

Well, being silly/stupid isn't necessarily immoral and unethical. Difficult to understand is also subjective.

That said, gigantic words like ektertekst-etcetc (no way I'm rewriting that ) are silly, but if there was a group of people who felt it was easy for them, then it's certainly not immoral for them to enjoy it.

You raise good points and I don't mean to appear as if I'm picking on you, but I just think that such strong language as "unethical" etc is probably not well placed .

(also note that I have trouble discerning between "ethical" and "moral", so forgive me for that).

@ Miland, I feel though that there is no limit. There aren't any big commonly used words, since after a certain amount of radicals are "kunmetitaj", the word becomes unique as is.

I once used supersignanstataŭigmetodoj on the Esperanto-language lernu! board.

darkweasel:I once used supersignanstataŭigmetodoj on the Esperanto-language lernu! board.

Is this about codes for emoticons?

ceigered:..gigantic words like ektertekst-etcetc (no way I'm rewriting that ) are silly..

Ekstertera has 9 letters, while eksterterulo has 12 letters. The English word "extraterrestrial" has 16 letters. Facts are good, aren't they?