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27 Mar 2015, 3:24 pm
just TRY and say "Tweedehandsemotorverkoopsmannevakbondstakingsvergaderingsameroeperstoespraakskrywerspersverklaringuitreikingsmediakonferensieaankondiging" 10 times fast 
27 Mar 2015, 3:35 pm
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27 Mar 2015, 3:46 pm
try to say "Floccinaucinihilipilification" 10 time fast 
27 Mar 2015, 9:43 pm
the word got cut off and i had to quote your post like so to get the whole thing.
mein gott. once is enough.
much easier if split into its syllables.
27 Mar 2015, 9:51 pm
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28 Mar 2015, 6:04 am
It's Afrikaans. In most Germanic languages you can string nouns together indefinately, so you can make up really long words that are not really used but are grammatically correct. What the word above means is sort of hard to follow but something like this: media conference announcement of the union of second hand motor salesmen who had a meeting where they decided to go on strike (or something like that, Afrikaans is a bit different from Dutch). If English still had this string-together rule there would be English words of near infinite length. And they would have words like "carsalesmenunion", "trainstationbuildingmanager". In Dutch, not writing them as one word would mess with the grammar and change the meaning.
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28 Mar 2015, 1:42 pm
It's Afrikaans. In most Germanic languages you can string nouns together indefinately, so you can make up really long words that are not really used but are grammatically correct. What the word above means is sort of hard to follow but something like this: media conference announcement of the union of second hand motor salesmen who had a meeting where they decided to go on strike (or something like that, Afrikaans is a bit different from Dutch). If English still had this string-together rule there would be English words of near infinite length. And they would have words like "carsalesmenunion", "trainstationbuildingmanager". In Dutch, not writing them as one word would mess with the grammar and change the meaning.
just being able to READ that humongous word is a real skill! 
28 Mar 2015, 1:45 pm
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28 Mar 2015, 1:47 pm
^^^
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