h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

well while that is a ridiculously long word, it is not THE longest - german cannot have a longest word as numbers can go on to infinity, and thus writing the name of a number can go on to infinity...

deano u r the most pedantic person i have EVER known

the same applies in english, but for some strange reason they dont print all the numbers there could possably be in the dictionary.

the longest word that IS in the dictionary is:

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicocovolcanoconosis

which is 45 letters long and is a lung condition sufferd my miners.

and antidisestablishmentarianism is pretty good too

and hippopotomonstroseequipedalianism 32, the liking of saying long words

but ther ewas an article in the rt a while ago showing that any word could have loads of prefixes and suffixes afdded on making it even longer so there isn't really a 'longest word', in english or in gewrman:-p

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliaphobia: Phobia of long words. That just takes the piss.

"I'm sorry to say you've got hippopotomonst-"
"AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
*BANG*
*sigh* "Margery, can you please get my patient out from underneath the magazine table?"

lol! ahh the irony

isnt it sad that americans dont get irony/sarcasm what miserable lives they must lead, not that i care of course

actually ther are SOME nice americans, i email one of them and talk to others of them, its just in general they are so annoying

oh no, the same does not reply to english. numbers become seperate words in english. E.G. nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine. amazingly enough, that's not one word. good luck with your english exam though.

Ahh Deano, Lord of Pedancticity, allow me to follow in your footsteps for a second: 'same does not reply'. I think you might possably mean 'apply'. Also 'E.G.' should be in small case. However the beginning of a sentance should really start with a capital. Oh by the way, thank you for the good luck wishes. I would like to return them to you as you clearly need luck more than I do.

"sentance" is actually spelt "sentence".

and why would you say i need more luck than you??? after all, i'm fairly sure you didn't get straight A**s (and there are meant to be TWO stars there, its not a mistake) in your English GCSE coursework...?

oh right a new grade has magically been invented just for you deano because you are such a boff

and no, I being a mere mortal have only got straight As in english coursework so far.

you must be runnning out of things to criticise considering you are now picking up on typos...

well the exam boards will obviously take it as 'A*', but my work have nice A**s with a circle round them at the end.

but yeah you're right, I am running out of things to criticise... there are only so many ways in which you're a raving lunatic...

"my work have" i think that should be 'has'

deano you are such a boff!

and i am not a raving lunatic...im small blue cauliflower who lives in chechoslovakia


*yes i know thats not how you spell it, but i cant be bothered to find and atlas*

that and the fact that any atlas from the last 10 years or so wouldn' help you - Czechoslovakia ceased to exist, becoming the states of Czech Rep. and Slovakia.

Ah! So this is why I haven't looked at my conversations for weeks! Deano, stop being a smug boff. Fraeya and Deano, stop criticising each other's typos.

yes sir! *salutes*

nice to have you back lizzy for a little while anyway

Don't worry, I'll be off again soon, on another tangent of abundant madness. I've decided that when I grow up I want to be a candidate for the Monster Raving Loony Party.

yay! LOL you'd be brillient lizzy! i think the country would be so much better run if we had them... INSANITLY RULES THE WORLD MWHAHAHAHA

excuse me an arthritic bright yellow ostrich is at the door...

Let him in, I wonder if he likes tea and prunes??
Hooo, hooo!

he says "i feel i must consume seven tonnes of nail clippings and that he'd like on of the bright red ones if theres any availible. if not he'd like a salamander"

Hey, we can do salamanders. Top shelf of the broom cupbord, beside the escaped Convict.

lol got them but the escaped convict escaped. that is the convict who escaped escaped. no the escaped...

when i was drunk once my brother said i was as drunk as a newt and i saidi wasnt, i was as drunk as a salamander. only as you can guess it didnt exactly come out like salamnder...

"A lamasander... No, a salalamber... hee hee hee... No, I've got it, I've got it! A samamalender!"