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Hemicomputer



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 4:16 am    Post subject: Longest words... Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 6:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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 Wink
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Hemicomputer



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 7:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 7:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh, right: I forgot pronunciations too Embarassed

Mór'dwenlóθatoló = /muːrdwɛnluːðætɒluː/
Vé’Vétzó’sühedátẃló = /vivitzuːsəhɛdɑːtoʊluː/

kebẃáponŚifn = /kɛboʊɑːpɒnʃifən/
Reð’Méðru-ćévăr-é-vás =/rɛθmiθrʌtʃiværivɑːs/
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 2:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 4:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shocked Dam, that's long! Makes my longest word seem tiny

Gloss and X-SAMPA please?
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 8:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 7:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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)
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 10:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

en-ŋōshēs-dēkares-gōladot
one who can't be discreetly reasoned with

21 letters, 22 transliterated because of the sh.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 6:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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