[OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*)

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>]

On 2015-06-22, at 00:01, Jürgen Hartmann <juergen_hartmann_@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you Emanuel Berg for your answer:
>
>> Wow! You sure get many suggestions when making
>> mistakes in German!
>
> That's because in principle you can compose any number of nouns to a valid
> German word. [...]

Arbeitsunfähigkeitsbescheinigung ;-)

(a certificate of inability to work, if this is a correct English
translation)

Also, there is one very funny sketch by one of Polish comedians, in
which the guy tells an absurd story, during which he constructs longer
and longer German-ish words.  The last one is composed of about 10 parts
and sounds ridiculous.  (I know too little German to be able to write
them down here, sorry...)

OTOH, Esperanto is even better at making up long, compound words on the
spot, since this is how this language works.  Also, you can basically
turn any Esperanto word - or even a suffix - into a noun or a verb or an
adjective or an adverb.  For instance, the suffix -ar- means "many" (as
in "arbaro", "forest", from "arbo", "tree").  It can itself be turned
into a noun, "aro", meaning "a set" or "a multitude".  It can then be
compounded, for instance, to get "arteorio" - "set theory".  Now that is
fun!

NB: despite of all the fun we make of the German language
(cf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlATOHGj9EY), I really like it.
(Also, before anyone gets offended: I have nothing against joking about
my language, or my compatriots, or my fellow Catholics, provided that
the joke is good.  AFAIK, most jokes about Poles are rather poor, but
there might be exceptions; OTOH, I know quite a lot of good jokes about
Catholics.)

> Juergen

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University