Just one more joke.
-What is the longest word in English?
-'smiles'
-Not too long! Six letters only.
-Well, but there is a mile bewteen the first 's' and the last one!
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Just one more joke.
-What is the longest word in English?
-'smiles'
-Not too long! Six letters only.
-Well, but there is a mile bewteen the first 's' and the last one!
As for long grammatical structures, I'll add an example from Japanese (I am currently learning it):Quote:
Originally Posted by Mihkkal
yomu - to read;
yomaseru - to make (or to force) someone read;
yomasaserareru - to be forced to read;
yomasaseraretagaru - (he) wants to be forced to read;
yomasaseraretagaranai - (he) does not want to be forced to read;
yomasaseraretagaranakatta - (he) did not want to be forced to read;
yomasaseraretagaranakattaro: - (he) probably did not want to be forced to read.
The latter looks in Japanese writing as follows:
読まさせられたがらなかったろう
I classify languages for myself for tree type
1. The language does not have the cases. (English)
2. The language has the cases. (Russian)
3. I have not idea what is it. (Japanese)
In contrast with Russian language we have seven cases and affix in nominative case. I saw a movie poster in the morning (P?ters Pens - Peter Pen). :D
Well, there are twelve case markers in Japanese (2 Nominatives, Genitive, Dative, Locative, Accusative, Directional, Instrumental, etc.). The markers are small particles following a noun. They are standard and unified there.
BTW, I think it's already a topic to be discussed in the "Japanese Lounge" forum. I'll put it there soon.
Infactimpossiblylongwordsinfinnougriclanguagesjust worklikethis. See? The biggest word ever. :roll:
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is the longest english word listed in the Webster's Dictonary. At least when I was in grade school it was. Not sure if it still is the longest word (some of our scientific names can get pretty obscure).
True, but not quite that simple. Finnish uses different stems for each word depending on the case (there are many mutations like -tt/-t, -rt/rr, -p/v, etc).Quote:
Originally Posted by Jasper May
Interesting. It would be nice to have a look at such tests. Are they available on the Net? Can you post them here?Quote:
Originally Posted by emka71aln
I think Jasper and I had a discussion about this a while ago, but we couldn't really find any tests. Maybe we found a short sample one...