Fun talk:The longest English word

Don't forget [many prefixes in assorted combinations]-antidisestablishmentarianism (pseudo-crypto is different from crypto-pseudo etc etc etc). Anna Livia (talk) 23:40, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

Carthage (talk) 23:41, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

Ade and derivatives is the go-to long word in the UK and is somewhat more -conversation-ready than the given chemical name (which is properly 'scientificese' rather than standard English). Anna Livia (talk) 09:28, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

How did you find this page?

Hello guys I am the creater of this fun page how did you find it? --User:Yassine Mehdi (talk) 11:50, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Click on 'Recent changes' in the column of links on the left hand side (in RW's current iteration - other wikis may vary). Anna Livia (talk) 13:10, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Must this be considered a word?

First, what exactly is a word? I am not a linguist, so I don't really know. But the word word is ambiguous, although we often have a basic idea about what it is. In this case, the longest word is the chemical name for titin, which is the biggest known molecule. The chemical nomenclature as described by the IUPAC theoretically enables as to create extremly long names without limit. So if oneday a molecule even bigger than titin is discovered, it would have an even longer name. Many dictionary writes, however, regard such names as verbal formulae insted of true words. So is this a word? I am waiting for the response of a linguist. Yassine Mehdi (talk) 14:20, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

There are 'long words in actual use', there are 'longer words which *can* have an actual meaning, alongwith "this is a slightly humorous attempt at a long word" ((the Smörgåsbord-sandwich versions of antidisestablishmentarianism and eg German 'Donaudampfshiff...') and then there are 'words' like this, renderings of DNA sequences and similar where information resides in the patterns and sequence of components rather than the saying. Anna Livia (talk) 13:05, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

Suggestion

A reference to John 1:1? Anna Livia (talk) 18:21, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

@Anna Livia What? Yassine Mehdi (talk) 19:04, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God' - so presumably bigger than anything human-created. Anna Livia (talk) 13:54, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

@Anna Livia No, bad idea. Yassine Mehdi (talk) 14:27, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

Humour (British) Anna Livia (talk) 15:23, 23 August 2023 (UTC)