tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1291147930399569160.post1078307578137859236..comments2024-03-21T09:39:36.523+11:00Comments on Ἡλληνιστεύκοντος: What is the longest word of Modern Greek?opoudjishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106433476518749382noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1291147930399569160.post-31586871405592272142010-03-24T00:29:03.597+11:002010-03-24T00:29:03.597+11:00I'll add here, as a good clarification on the ...I'll add here, as a good clarification on the seriousness of long word coinages, <a href="http://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2010/03/12/on-translation-exhibit-1/#comment-6674" rel="nofollow">Shreevatsa's comment</a> in his thread on Sanskrit poetry—which cites my <a href="http://hellenisteukontos.blogspot.com/2010/03/what-is-longest-word-of-sanskrit.html" rel="nofollow">post on the longest attested word of Sanskrit</a>: <br /><br />"Let’s be clear — this is not about the longest possible word (which we know is unbounded); it is merely about the longest word that actually exists in some (fixed) corpus — say, works composed before 1900. Anyone can string together words of any length, and this was always common knowledge, so no one sane would have bothered “going for the record”. So the question is only how long someone did bother to go, in all seriousness, in something that was actually intended to be read. :-) "opoudjishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02106433476518749382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1291147930399569160.post-51312712873761682072010-03-15T13:50:28.153+11:002010-03-15T13:50:28.153+11:00Edit: ἀποστρατιωτικοποιήσεως not ἀποστρατιωτικοπο...<b>Edit:</b> ἀποστρατιωτικοποιήσεως not ἀποστρατιωτικοποίησεως. I originally had written the word in the nom. case, that is why the accent is off.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08068077941877080797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1291147930399569160.post-40886164822028962932010-03-15T13:47:17.157+11:002010-03-15T13:47:17.157+11:00In a dictionary, the longest I could come find is ...In a dictionary, the longest I could come find is ἀποστρατιωτικοποίησεως (22 chars., gen. of "demilitarization"). There are plenty of 16 to 20 letter words, but anything higher (that is, 21-letter words basically) is rare.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08068077941877080797noreply@blogger.com