tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212372221459478698.post2553571624557553270..comments2023-12-10T04:36:36.090-05:00Comments on Lost in Translation: National Mall: Folklife Festival 2009Jonathan Hsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13214201468052661183noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212372221459478698.post-89437892317074924832021-12-27T14:13:49.941-05:002021-12-27T14:13:49.941-05:00Thank you forr thisThank you forr thisKarlahttps://www.karlagarrison.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212372221459478698.post-9452612854379939122009-10-29T20:21:45.460-04:002009-10-29T20:21:45.460-04:00LOL. Those agglutinative languages sure are fun!
...LOL. Those agglutinative languages sure are fun! <br /><br />Something like Hungarian does force us to reconsider what we (English speakers) would rightly consider a "word" in the first place. If you define a "word" as "a continuous string of letters" then you really cast your net wide, including Welsh names (like above), German compound nouns, and a heavily-inflected and suffixed (?) Hungarian monstrosity like the one you cite.Jonathan Hsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214201468052661183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5212372221459478698.post-10183985747730558452009-10-29T19:47:27.145-04:002009-10-29T19:47:27.145-04:00Ah! Speaking of long words/names, I was reading a ...Ah! Speaking of long words/names, I was reading a little bit about the Hungarian language today and noticed that the Hungarians (like the Germans) are fond of very long words.<br /><br />According to the Wikipedia entry, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_language, there's a word which translates roughly to:<br /><br />"for your repeated pretending to be indesecratable"<br /><br />...and if my count is correct, at 45 letters long, it isn't even the longest Hungarian word. Wonder how commonly it's used, though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com