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[xcom freak]

Well idon't know for dutch and german but the french longest word is

Anticonstitutionellement

[xoopx]

im not german, but im fond of the word

lebensmittelvergiftung

[Sebatianos]

Originally posted by xoopx@Jan 24 2005, 11:49 PM
im not german, but im fond of the word

lebensmittelvergiftung

Here's what it said on the grave next to my gradfathers (although in Maribor/Slovenia, that fellow was burried there still in the time of the Austo-Hungarian monarchy) - millitärischeobertierartzhielfer

[Wahoo]

good thing there are no finnish people here, or we could be here for a while.

[Fawfulhasfury]

electrocepholograph

[xcom freak]

I had Biochem last semester check this word out:

tetrabenzodialdehyde-3-phosphoenol

[Strobe]

Originally posted by xoopx@Jan 24 2005, 09:49 PM
im not german, but im fond of the word

lebensmittelvergiftung

hehe, nice word, but a bad state of health when you have a "lebensmittelvergiftung"
(this actually means being toxicated by rooten/bad food).

the longest word i found in german is:
Zivildienstleistendenvertrauensmannsgesetz (42 letters)

it is a term which is naming a certain law about civil service in germany.
it's a tongue-breaker, indeed!

[bjbrains2002]

the longest real word in english is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a lung disease that clocks in at 45 letters

[ultranewbie]

I know it's not the longest, but I still love:

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

It's a shame that English doesn't have the amazing ability to generate compound words - Mary Poppins is as good as it gets.

Dinosaurs have also long names:

Megacephalosaurus