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Please answer my 6yr old child's question
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17/06/2005 08:03:43
 
 
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16/06/2005 18:19:19
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Visual FoxPro
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Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01022435
Message ID:
01024246
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32
>>You Serbs!
>>
>>The longest in English is:
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>>pneumonoultramicroscopicsilivolcaniconiosis
>
>You Anglophones... you think your language includes Latin. At least the words in nominative, sometimes plural.
>
>I didn't count pnenumonoultramikroskopska silvulkanikonioza, because it's two words. Or "otorinolaringološka klinika" for the same reason. But we did have a radio guy who would always take a break after the third syllable, and eventually gave up and started using "clinic for throat, ear and nose".

Close to the English: "Otolaryngology Clinic" It seems English is a lot more succinct than other lang's. I've often noticed this when watching sub-titled films: the speakers rabbit on for ages, beating their gums, and the sub-tile in English can be said in a trice.
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
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