My vote goes out to "winsome"!
101 pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters... but it may not be the longest word out there)... but I'll settle for my word spiffy
"At 45 letters, it is certainly the longest word ever to appear in a non-technical dictionary of English, the Oxford English Dictionary. However there are strong indications that the word was coined by puzzler Everett Smith in 1935 as a hypothetical long word that could result from the protraction of medical terms. The actual name of the disease is pneumoconiosis, which is 14 letters long."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English#Popular_usage
Floccinaucinihilipilification is the longest "official" word in the English language, even longer than Antidisestablishmentarianism, but is longer really better and is English really best?
What language would YOU recommend? If it's esperanto, or some other made up bullshit that nobody in their right mind would speak, I shoot you.
WRYYYYYYYY
>If it's esperanto, or some other made up bullshit that nobody in their right mind would speak, I shoot you.
There are people whose mother tongue is esperanto, you know. ; )
sucks to be them.
>>There are people whose mother tongue is esperanto, you know. ; )
>sucks to be them.
I'll ignore your (non-)seriousness level and counter-argue for a bit. I think it would work quite well and be quite nice, actually. Esperanto isn't anything like a "crazy moon language" or anything. Rather, it appears to be a hybrid of latin/germanic/slavic languages, making anyone who speaks it a much better learner of many European languages than a random person.
Also, someone who has parents willing to teach them Esperanto as first language will very probably be in an environment that's very good for learning languages anyway.
There are probably thousands of "natural languages" with very few remaining speakers which it "sucks" way more to be born into - Wikipedia gives estimates of first/seconds language speakers as 1000/100 000, and those people will certainly stay in touch quite well.
propaganda is a pretty good word, too.
>>107
Aramaic, for one. Has less than 3k speakers.
but than than is not saying much because it is estamted there are more than 5,000 people who can actuly speek klingon well...
Bananaphone.
WAHA!
schadenfreude
>but than than (...) more than 5,000 people who can actuly speek klingon well...
But you fail at English :(
Today I ran into two great words at once: "purloined horehound"
>>105
O RLY? Those must be big losers, as with klingon.
> it appears to be a hybrid of latin/germanic/slavic languages
Yeah, right. I can read Spanish (mother tongue) and Portuguese; I can understand a good deal of Italian and French; I'd know the roots of many Romanian words; and as you can see, I've learnt English too. I took a look at dEsperanto, and I couldn't get 1% of that. It's just bullshit. Making a language that resembles both English and Spanish, 2nd and 3rd most used languages, is hard enough, nevermind how stupid the idea of inventing new languages is, but trying to make a language that's a mix of English, Spanish, German, and whatever my father sings when taking a shower results in bizarre, gibberish babbling. What do you get from mixing red, green and blue? Gray, and it's nothing like red, nothing like green, and nothing like blue, thus foreign to 50% more colors than it would be if you just took one of red, green, or blue.
Languages were invented and standarized to understand each other. Making languages others don't know defeats their purpose. Get over it.
cowalatry
>>120
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10. courtlier
sexopornodiastrofiko-malakompoukoma
Greek. But don't try saying it to anyone greek unless you want to offend them-
AAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRR
NEKOMIMI
sirrah
Main Entry: sir·rah
Variant(s): also sir·ra /'sir-&/
Function: noun
Etymology: alteration of sir
obsolete -- used as a form of address implying inferiority in the person addressed
hark
Main Entry: hark
Pronunciation: 'härk
Function: intransitive verb
Etymology: Middle English herkien; akin to Old High German hOrechen to listen, Old English hIeran to hear: to pay close attention :
Nah, fark is a crummy word.
Main Entry: bint
Pronunciation: 'bint
Function: noun
Etymology: Arabic, girl, daughter
British : GIRL, WOMAN
>>118
achewood is forbidden.
>>129
Why?
Yeah, I'm gonna have to go with nekomimi, also.
Main Entry: trans·mog·ri·fy
Pronunciation: tran(t)s-'mä-gr&-"fI, tranz-
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): -fied; -fy·ing
Etymology: origin unknown
transitive senses : to change or alter greatly and often with grotesque or humorous effect
intransitive senses : to become transmogrified
synonym see TRANSFORM
I like this thread. There should be a database of awesome words online somewhere.
>>10
Seconded.
Frell
I found an entire list of totally awesome words.
http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Alison/lexophilia/coolwords/index.html
LEXOPHILIA!
Did I already say "jejune"?
ljustra
FUCK
Seventeen lustra and a year ago...
"Buggery" is a nice one.
narf
my pick for best word would be:
anonymity
for the sole reason i struggle to say it the first 8 attempts
best word ever:
SAGE.
Second-best: FAIL. You forgot to actually sage the topic.
Poppycock.
Avian
Linoleum
best word ever?
150 get
BE-NO-IST!
defenestrate
>>152 is old and tired.
4-channel ... ( ´_`)
I still say 'efficacy'.
STFU is the word
For some reason, I've always been fond of the word age. That, and currency.
Lalapalalaza <---no idea what it means
I like age as well.
Also, the best word is easily "butts." That's obvious.
best word ever = nurotic!
How about "dyslexic"?
jellyfish
reinya
Comrad... That is by far my favorite word.
>>152
Transfenestrate too. Unlike a defenstration, the window in not opened before performing a transfenestration.
trash is the best word for sure
"rococo" is my current favorite word ...
that, and maybe "undine"
You officially rock.