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Hemicomputer
Joined: 04 Feb 2008 Posts: 610 Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 4:16 am Post subject: Longest words... |
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Just some random fun here. What is the longest word possible in your conlang?
In Holxws, at 22 letters (13 in the Holxws abjad) and 9 syllables, the longest word that makes sense is "úenlásidalulunálttwrws," which translates to "like the state in which we cannot be crying." |
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Aert
Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 354
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Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 6:12 am Post subject: |
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Good idea!
If you want to get technical, the numbers system in my language doesn't use spaces between the numbers and so I could just list of an insanely long number and say: "here's my 1000 letter word" ...
Complex conjugations are of medium length (up to 20-25 letters I guess). An example would be:
Mór'dwenlóθatoló [Mór-dwenló-θa-to-ló] = We-(verb to walk)-habitual-perfect-gerund = We have been walking.
Vé’Vétzó’sühedátẃló [byó Tebn-ðén]. [Vé-Vétzó-sü-hedá-tẃ-ló] = I-myself-past-(verb to make art)-perfect-gerund = I myself have been making art [for twenty years].
Also, my language is (agglutinative?) and so many words can be squished together (no practical limit, but I would guess maybe 25?):
kebẃáponŚifn [ke-b-ẃá-pon-Śif-n] = (verb to be in a condition)-future-forever-great-friend-plural = will be great/best friends forever.
Reð’Méðru-ćévăr-é-vás [R-eð-Méðru-ćévăr-é-vás] = on-the-planet-blue-and-green = On the blue and green planet.
Note: it looks a lot better in script |
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Hemicomputer
Joined: 04 Feb 2008 Posts: 610 Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 7:25 am Post subject: |
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Thanks! I seem to have forgotten pronunciation and gloss for mine, here it is:
úenlásidalulunálttwrws
/wEnlA'siD{l@l@nAlttU4Uks/
úen-lá-sidalu-l-un-ált-twr-ws
neg-capability-cry-1st-pl-gerund-noun-like |
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Aert
Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 354
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Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 7:34 am Post subject: |
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Oh, right: I forgot pronunciations too
Mór'dwenlóθatoló = /muːrdwɛnluːðætɒluː/
Vé’Vétzó’sühedátẃló = /vivitzuːsəhɛdɑːtoʊluː/
kebẃáponŚifn = /kɛboʊɑːpɒnʃifən/
Reð’Méðru-ćévăr-é-vás =/rɛθmiθrʌtʃiværivɑːs/ |
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Tolkien_Freak
Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 1231 Location: in front of my computer. always.
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Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm.....
In Kilhiryui, you can just quote something indirectly and conjugate both verbs as far as possible. (If you add adverbs it gets even worse. ^_^)
Yatturunuyanyenyiluzaguzigyutairyutturunyenyiluzaguzigi
The state of beginning to have needed to be able to not say that (one) would have needed to be able to not go.
You could also take the time to negate almost every morpheme in there if you really wanted. |
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Hemicomputer
Joined: 04 Feb 2008 Posts: 610 Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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Dam, that's long! Makes my longest word seem tiny
Gloss and X-SAMPA please? |
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Tolkien_Freak
Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 1231 Location: in front of my computer. always.
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Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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That was one of the minor goals of Kilhiryui - frighteningly long words.
I'll try the gloss and X-SAMPA. *deep breath*
Yatturunuyanyenyiluzaguzigyutairyutturunyenyiluzaguzigi
/jatTM4MnMjanjenjilMzaNMziNjMtai4MtTM4MnjenjilMzaNMziNi/
Yat-tur-un-uyan-yen-yil-uzag-uzig-yu-tairyut-tur-un-yen-yil-uzag-uzig-i
go-NEG-PAST-HYP-INCEPT-DUB-NECESSARY-POSSIBLE-QUOTE-say-NEG-PAST-INCEPT-DUB-NECESSARY-POSSIBLE-NOM
And a translation revision (I left out some stuff I forgot I put in the Kilhiryui):
The state of maybe beginning to have needed to be able to not say that (one) maybe would have needed to be able to not go.
EDIT: I decided to count, and it's 55 Roman letters. |
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Hemicomputer
Joined: 04 Feb 2008 Posts: 610 Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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In my newest conlang, Drumu, the longest word I can find right now is:
Seskubevarihlestustuziraulüdauv?
/seskubevaRiXlEstustuziRaulYdauv/
seskube-vari-hlestu-st-(u)zir-(au)lü-(d)au-v?
yellow-hair-pin-fewer-ins-abl-int-neg?
"Not by means of (moving) away from a smaller amount of yellow hairpins?"
12 syllables and 32 letters.
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mrtoast2
Joined: 19 Feb 2008 Posts: 123 Location: Goromonzi
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Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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Bílbtrálčórbílâdórśénšótkánâ
That's the gwakkian verb čórbílâdórśén (to dismember) conjugated for the first person plural in the present perfect progressive.
So,
Dénórn bílbtrálčórbílâdórśénšótkánâ
can be literally translated as
We have been dismembering.
By the way, that's 28 characters and 10 syllables. _________________ Tôśt drônén kókślán! Vón kríngénã Tôśt! Gâgén šníkél dér îwâ! |
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kyonides
Joined: 28 Aug 2008 Posts: 301
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Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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Actually Kexyana doesn't have such long words, the few I can remember now are...
Meisterovluro - asteroid belt (13 letters, 5 syllables)
Nintausoderelda - unbearable (15 letters, 6 syllables)
Ninsverunesva - misfortunate (13 letters, 5 syllables) _________________ Seos nivo adgene Kizne tikelke
The Internet might be either your best friend or your worst enemy. It just depends on whether or not she has a bad hair day.
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Hemicomputer
Joined: 04 Feb 2008 Posts: 610 Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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Slipping some natlangs in here, a 64-letter word in English:
Nonpseudoantidepseudoantiredisestablishmentarianizationisticizer
"One who does not make people falsely oppose making people stop falsely opposing destroying the establishment again"
A 44-letter word in Turkish:
Çekoslovakyalılaştıramadıklarımızdanmışsınız
"You are said to be one of those that we couldn't manage to convert to a Czechoslovak"
A 36-letter word in Dutch
Ziektekostenverzekeringsmaatschappij
"Health insurance company" |
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dusepo
Joined: 12 Feb 2008 Posts: 129
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Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 10:01 am Post subject: |
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en-ŋōshēs-dēkares-gōladot
one who can't be discreetly reasoned with
21 letters, 22 transliterated because of the sh. _________________ My Website |
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Aert
Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 354
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 6:22 am Post subject: |
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I finished(?) the morphology for Aert, and discovered a few loopholes so that long words can be made more or less easily:
Mórt'Fëăyaom-hwýdzähg-zäon'sëbýbẃwýattérnacë (41 letters, 16 syllables)
/murt fʌejaʊm ʍʌɪdzɒg zɒɔn sʌbʌɪboʊwʌɪætːirnækʌ/
"Our whole messy house will have just been cleaned" [... when they return]
Here, all of [Mórt'Fëăyaom-hwýdzähg-zäon] is the subject, and as a pronoun phrase, can be attached with the main apostraphe ' .
[sëbý-] are the two tenses here; [bẃ-] the preverb "to make ~"; [wyatt] the verb "to clean"; [-érn] the perfect tense; and [-acë] the postverb "to have just done something (or whatever tense)" . |
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