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    KINDERCARNIVALSOPTOCHTVOORBEREIDINGSWERKZAAMHEDEN
    Nog fout!!

    Moet zijn:

    KINDERCARNAVALSOPTOCHTVOORBEREIDINGSWERKZAAMHEDEN

    En nog langer:

    KUTKINDERCARNAVALSOPTOCHTVOORBEREIDINGSWERKZAAMHEDENBESPREKING

    Yogi

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    Ik vind dat de woorden 'kut' en 'kindercarnavalsoptochtbespreking' niet in een zin vermeld mogen worden

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    Darth, I don't speak Eskimo too well, but I think Skweeky and Sensual are totally flaming your ass!

    Quick, use the word "obfuscate" on them, your flame war is at hand!
    Aren't we in the trust tree, thingey?

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    Originally posted by SensualGardening@9 December 2003 - 00:02
    KINDERCARNIVALSOPTOCHTVOORBEREIDINGSWERKZAAMHEDEN
    Nog fout!!

    Moet zijn:

    KINDERCARNAVALSOPTOCHTVOORBEREIDINGSWERKZAAMHEDEN

    En nog langer:

    KUTKINDERCARNAVALSOPTOCHTVOORBEREIDINGSWERKZAAMHEDENBESPREKING

    Yogi
    Ok! You have me there SG.

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    The best way to keep a secret:- Tell everyone not to tell anyone.

  5. Lounge   -   #25
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    fugue (a homonym as it happens)
    torpor
    lax
    adz
    qua
    madrigal
    specious
    meretricious
    sesquipedalian
    apocryphal

    There are plenty of chaps on this board who are familiar all of these words, without having to look any of them up. Many will use at least some of them in conversation.

    I am far from embarrassed that I am one of them. If someone uses a word I am unfamiliar with I will ask them what it means. If it happens on the interweb, I will look it up. I have no problem with learning stuff.


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    Originally posted by hobbes@8 December 2003 - 23:06
    Darth, I don't speak Eskimo too well, but I think Skweeky and Sensual are totally flaming your ass!

    Quick, use the word "obfuscate" on them, your flame war is at hand!
    i think you might be a prestidigitator - does Babelfish do Dutch?
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    Originally posted by nigel123+8 December 2003 - 23:41--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (nigel123 @ 8 December 2003 - 23:41)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-muchspl2@8 December 2003 - 23:22
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    noun
    a 1,913-letter chemical name for tryptophan synthetase A protein, an enzyme consisting 267 amino acids (Mrs. Byrne&#39;s Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words, 1994
    Not likely to be used very often fortunately&#33;

    Here is a long dutch word, KINDERCARNAVALSOPTOCHTVOORBEREIDINGSWERKZAAMHEDEN...


    edit: typo of course&#33; :-" I can&#39;t see anything wrong&#33;&#33;&#33; [/b][/quote]
    *cough*

    SG what did you say

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    adism

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    rotflmfao HA BEAT THAT&#33;

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    not exactly a word, but the prefix "sesqui" is one of my favs at the moment:

    Sesqui - one and a half times:

    eg: sesqui-centenary 150 years
    edit: damn JP used it on sesquipedalian.....nm, still like it
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