Language

[Ambalon]

It's a fictional dish mentioned in Aristophanes' comedy Assemblywomen.

 

[Hengist]

Hear ye! Thanks 

I once heard the longest english word is antidisestablishmentarianism.
Does someone know a longer one?
And there is also this insanely long Gaelic word for a Welsh village or something.

 

[CountArtha]

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis?  It doesn't count for some because it's a scientific/medical term.

 

[FrisianDude]

Shutupscolioscis.


Hey Butscrew, some of the Eastern European fellows posted their terms for monkey names in the banned thread, I think. Mulek in Polish, Trueten in Ukrainian and some others, I think.

 

[butscrew]

Damn them for posting it in the wrong ****ing place. Now I gotta go search for that ****.

POST MONKEY IN YOUR NATIVE TONGUE HERE YOU PRATS.... please.

 

[FrisianDude]

Here: http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,73902.msg2510709.html#msg2510709

 

[butscrew]

Oh that banned thread? I just searched close to 10 minutes in the Who are these banned people thread for references to monkey in foreign languages and couldn't find a single one. There was a few monkeys mentioned though.

 

[FrisianDude]

Oh, sorry.

One can clearly see which ones are Germanic and which ones Slavic.

 

[Gule]

Hear ye! Thanks 

I once heard the longest english word is antidisestablishmentarianism.
Does someone know a longer one?
And there is also this insanely long Gaelic word for a Welsh village or something.

Here is the longest swedish word, in Sweden there isn't really a limit for how long a word can be.

"Nordöstersjökustartilleriflygspaningssimulatoranläggningsmaterielunderhållsuppföljningssystemdiskussionsinläggsförberedelsearbeten"

 

[DameGreyWulf]

I thought the longest word in existence was the name of some Scandinavic town?

 

[AWdeV]

Hey screw, an online translator, my limited knowledge of russian and wikipedia told me the Russian for monkey is Обезьяна. Which I think could be transliterated to Obez'yana.

 

[butscrew]

Spasiba

 

[AWdeV]

не за что.

 

[CountArtha]

Weird - there doesn't seem to be a German word for "monkey."  Simians are called "Affen," but that includes apes and by extension humans.

 

[butscrew]

Some German speaker said Affe so I will go with that.

 

[Hengist]

Weird - there doesn't seem to be a German word for "monkey."  Simians are called "Affen," but that includes apes and by extension humans.

Some German speaker said Affe so I will go with that.

As you saw earlier I'm not sure about the biological distinctions, but regarding the general usage and understanding of the word among Germans, I think Affe is appropriate.
Did you tell us already what you do that for, butscrew? Or is it just to have an extraordinary sig?

 

[butscrew]

So that I could win a bar bet which is "say monkey in 15 different languages."

But mostly because I like monkeys.

 

[Kleidophoros]

Here is your 15. language: Turkish - Maymun
Similar to Serbian i see and i believe it's majmun in Hrvatski/Croatian and Gjuha shqipe/Albanian. But it's not saying much..

 

[Yukimurahotfc]

16th: Tagalog - Unggoy 

I know it sounds bad but hey, it's the Tagalog word for monkey. 

 

[CountArtha]

"Unggoy" is also the Covenant name for the Grunts in Halo.