Am foxes really smart?
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@chozang "scraunched" is obsolete, but "scrunched" isn't, and it's only one letter shorter (and longer than 'strengths')
That said, "strengths" is a massive concept ;)
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@Yamikuronue You're missing a fox :P
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@Yamikuronue said in The Fox Ideas Thread:
@chozang "scraunched" is obsolete, but "scrunched" isn't, and it's only one letter shorter (and longer than 'strengths')
That said, "strengths" is a massive concept ;)
This concept of words being "obsolete" seems to be unique to Wikipedia. Words do not become obsolete, though they can become archaic.
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@chozang AFAICT, Wicked-Pedo took the idea of the obs. modifier from the Oxford English Dictionary, though even the OED's editors seem to waffle on just how 'archaic' differs from 'obsolete'. To the best of my knowledge, it has been used in most of the major English dictionaries for decades - it certainly was used in the Webster American English Dictionary when I was in high school (1981-86).
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@Yamikuronue said in The Fox Ideas Thread:
@chozang "scraunched" is obsolete, but "scrunched" isn't, and it's only one letter shorter (and longer than 'strengths')
That said, "strengths" is a massive concept ;)
What about "sblounskched"?
Wow, Google Chrome corrected my spelling for me. It must be a real word!
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More sort of frosty
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Wait until a certain fox gets done with the spellaring, and then we'll see which word is largest.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in Am foxes really smart?:
Wait until a certain fox gets done with the spellaring, and then we'll see which word is largest.
Faux?
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in Am foxes really smart?:
Wait until a certain fox gets done with the spellaring, and then we'll see which word is largest.
Floccinaucinihilipilification
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@ScholRLEA So 'obsolete' is obsolete?
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in Am foxes really smart?:
which word is largest
Antidisestablishmentarianism,floccinaucinihilipilification, orpneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, depending on your dictionary.Or if you include chemical terms, there's also
vinyltrimethylsiloxysilicate(found in the ingredients list for some lotion I saw somewhere)methylchloroisothiazolinoneand its shorter cousinchloroisothiazolinone(found in the ingredients list of translucent shampoos and body washes)- Note: other chemical names are longer, but not any that I've found easily referenced outside of chemistry/biology sources, e.g. the chemical name for isoform 12 of the protein titin is huge, at
189,819252,176 letters long. (Thanks, @flabdablet)
Here's a few other 'longests's:
Stewardessesis the longest word that can be typed on a qwerty keyboard using only the left hand in 'standard' position.Tsktsksis the longest word consisting of only consonants.Euouaeis the longest word consisting of only vowels.
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@djls45 said in Am foxes really smart?:
the chemical name for the protein titin is huge, at 189,819 letters long
IIRC, someone tried to post that here once (I forget if it was before or after The Noding), and the software just went 'lolnope'.
Edit: You can see it here: https://web.archive.org/web/20100114221953/http://www.sarahmcculloch.com/luminaryuprise/longest-word.html
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@loopback0 Broken up, that would require only 6 posts.
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@djls45 Somewhere along the way, a key stipulation (that is is a single syllable) seems to have been overlooked.
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@ScholRLEA said in Am foxes really smart?:
@djls45 Somewhere along the way, a key stipulation (that is is a single syllable) seems to have been overlooked.
Like, within the first page, even?
@RaceProUK said in The Fox Ideas Thread:
Foxes am smart:
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@chozang Did you say squanched?
http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/rickandmorty/images/f/fb/Squanchie.png
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@chozang said in Am foxes really smart?:
Actually, "scraunched" is.
"Strengths" is the longest word containing only a single vowel AFAIK.
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@djls45 said in Am foxes really smart?:
the chemical name for the protein titin is huge, at 189,819 letters long
Cite please
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@RaceProUK said in Am foxes really smart?:
You can see it here: https://web.archive.org/web/20100114221953/http://www.sarahmcculloch.com/luminaryuprise/longest-word.html
The word listed on that page is, in my opinion, highly unlikely to be the genuine formula for any actual protein.
Apart from featuring biologically implausible construction regularities, it contains several typographical errors.
Sarah McCulloch has since posted an update:
However, the protein name now posted there is now 241578 letters long, not 189819, despite what the introductory paragraph says.
My
contribution is here.
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@flabdablet You might just have killed that poor woman's website.
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@djls45 said in Am foxes really smart?:
depending on your dictionary
jbojevysofkemsuzgugje'ake'eborkemfaipaltrusi'oke'ekemgubyseltruis the longest I've seen so far in mine.
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@ben_lubar said in Am foxes really smart?:
@djls45 said in Am foxes really smart?:
depending on your dictionary
jbojevysofkemsuzgugje'ake'eborkemfaipaltrusi'oke'ekemgubyseltruis the longest I've seen so far in mine.zdalatukuuerpo'alegriiamakarenaketukuuerpo'espadarle'alegriiakosabuuenadalatukuuerpo'alegriiamakarena'eimakarenais apparently in the lojban dictionary as well.
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@ben_lubar said in Am foxes really smart?:
zdalatukuuerpo'alegriiamakarenaketukuuerpo'espadarle'alegriiakosabuuenadalatukuuerpo'alegriiamakarena'eimakarena
Did you catch that spider walking across your keyboard?
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@cvi That's a big spider if it is able to reach both 'a' and 'l' consecutively. Ben is not australian, y'know.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg What makes you think Ben is using a qwerty-layout? Besides, I'm thinking the key presses would result from his attempts at squishing the spider with a
newspaperandroid tablet or something while it's scuttling across the keyboard.It doesn't appear to have been a very bright spider, since it appears to have run forth and back across the keyboard several times.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg If he was, he probably wouldn't have survived encountering a spider on his keyboard.
@cvi But it's a fast one, since it managed to avoid being whacked that long.
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@djls45 said in Am foxes really smart?:
Stewardesses is the longest word that can be typed on a qwerty keyboard using only the left hand in 'standard' position.
Tsktsks is the longest word consisting of only consonants.
Euouae is the longest word consisting of only vowels.typewriteris the longest word that can be typed entirely on the top row of a QWERTY keyboard
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@Khudzlin said in Am foxes really smart?:
@cvi But it's a fast one, since it managed to avoid being whacked that long.
Probably a high dexterity build with focus on dodging.
The ones that go *crunch* are the ones that mistakenly specced into high armour.
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@ben_lubar said in Am foxes really smart?:
@ben_lubar said in Am foxes really smart?:
@djls45 said in Am foxes really smart?:
depending on your dictionary
jbojevysofkemsuzgugje'ake'eborkemfaipaltrusi'oke'ekemgubyseltruis the longest I've seen so far in mine.zdalatukuuerpo'alegriiamakarenaketukuuerpo'espadarle'alegriiakosabuuenadalatukuuerpo'alegriiamakarena'eimakarenais apparently in the lojban dictionary as well.Macarena is certainly a very important concept that deserves its own word.
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@cvi said in Am foxes really smart?:
It doesn't appear to have been a very bright spider, since it appears to have run forth and back across the keyboard several times.
No, it was dancing on the keyboard:
@ben_lubar said in Am foxes really smart?:
zdalatukuuerpo'alegriiamakarenaketukuuerpo'espadarle'alegriiakosabuuenadalatukuuerpo'alegriiamakarena'eimakarena
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@djls45 said in Am foxes really smart?:
Tsktsksis the longest word consisting of only consonants.Is it longer than
Rhythms?
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@PJH said in Am foxes really smart?:
@djls45 said in Am foxes really smart?:
Tsktsksis the longest word consisting of only consonants.Is it longer than
Rhythms?'Y' is usually considered a semi-vowel, because it can be used as either a consonant or a vowel. (I think it's considered a consonant only to avoid even more strange rules about whether it forms diphthongs. It's a vowel linguistically.)
InRhythyms, it functions as a vowel.
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@PJH said in Am foxes really smart?:
@djls45 said in Am foxes really smart?:
Tsktsksis the longest word consisting of only consonants.Is it longer than
Rhythms?Vowels: a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y.
Y is acting as vowel.
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TL;DR: Yes.
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@RaceProUK It's definitely a consonant in Welsh
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@Jaloopa said in Am foxes really smart?:
@RaceProUK It's definitely a consonant in Welsh
Wait, I thought both Y and W were vowels in Welsh.
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@Khudzlin do I look like I know what I'm talking about? It sounds consonanty to me
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@Jaloopa said in Am foxes really smart?:
@Khudzlin do I look like I know what I'm talking about?
You don't look like anything, tbh.
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@Khudzlin said in Am foxes really smart?:
@Jaloopa said in Am foxes really smart?:
@RaceProUK It's definitely a consonant in Welsh
Wait, I thought both Y and W were vowels in Welsh.
Every letter is a consonant in Welsh: that's why they can't have Countdown.
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@RaceProUK Can I have a vowel please Aled?
No
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@Khudzlin said in Am foxes really smart?:
Wait, I thought both Y and W were vowels in Welsh.
YesYdyn.
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@loopback0 I thought Welsh words were just something like
wordLen = random.randint(1,256) word = ''.join(random.choice("abcdefgilmnorstuwy") for _ in range (wordLen))
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@HardwareGeek I think random strings would be easier to pronounce.
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@cvi said in Am foxes really smart?:
Did you catch that spider walking across your keyboard?
I thought it was a cat. Quick, press the Delete key!
Filed under: How many people will get this one?
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@masonwheeler said in Am foxes really smart?:
@cvi said in Am foxes really smart?:
Did you catch that spider walking across your keyboard?
I thought it was a cat. Quick, press the Delete key!
Filed under: How many people will get this one?
On the tip of my tongue, but only because I'm reading a MegaMan fanfiction with a pony in it that referenced an interesting event that... Well, it's out there, I swear.
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