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aluseus GOD
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Posted: 14th Dec 2007 00:28
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titin is the longest officialy recognized word in english diction.
its chemical formula is-C132983 H211861 N36149 O40883 S693
it has 189,819 letters
now my question is, what is that name (the entirety of it) and if someone posted it, what would happen?

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HOLY CRAP! That name is 42 pages long in Times New Roman 10. The official name is...

http://www.othyr.com/titin.html

I tried to post it, but it returned:
"Your message is too long, please shorten it in length."

It's 189820 characters long.


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I tried to post it, but my message was too long.

Oh well: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061113221628AAxlNn5

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Do each of the seperate "words" that make up titin represent each of the amino acids in it?

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Posted: 14th Dec 2007 02:13 Edited at: 14th Dec 2007 02:14
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I still think the longest word is "Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis,"

I don't think place names or strings of amino acids count as words.

Funny, though

Edit: Oh, and I'm sorry, but my money is on no more than 2 hours before this thread gets locked. Due to the recent crackdown


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Posted: 14th Dec 2007 04:00
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If this hadn't been a scientific word I would have thought it was fake. I mean, "glycyl" is in there like 50 times...
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Posted: 14th Dec 2007 04:06 Edited at: 14th Dec 2007 04:08
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I think it's ridiculous they even have it as a word. Someone should try to say it, lol, it'd take an hour .


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Posted: 14th Dec 2007 04:10 Edited at: 14th Dec 2007 04:36
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I'll get text to speech right on it.
This may take a while.
{Edit} PC Crashed.


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Posted: 14th Dec 2007 04:37
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Why would it get locked? It tis an interesting thread!

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Posted: 14th Dec 2007 05:10
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That's true, but the mods have been very strict about "useless" threads. It's funny and all, but what real use is it?

Just ignore me


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Posted: 14th Dec 2007 05:12
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Quote: "I'll get text to speech right on it.
This may take a while.
{Edit} PC Crashed."

LOL


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Posted: 14th Dec 2007 05:40
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2.4 Ghz and 1 GB of RAM, click play and PC drops like a stone.


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Posted: 14th Dec 2007 12:23
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Holy crap thats long. Its longer than one of Ravens posts.
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Posted: 14th Dec 2007 12:36
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How would you abbreviate it?


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Posted: 14th Dec 2007 12:47 Edited at: 14th Dec 2007 15:41
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Quote: "How would you abbreviate it?"


titin?

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lol @ YDK_Man.
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Posted: 14th Dec 2007 15:14
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what's the point in that name?

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Posted: 14th Dec 2007 18:17 Edited at: 14th Dec 2007 18:17
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Quote: "what's the point in that name?"


If you know how to read it, you would know exactly how its molecule looks, or something like that

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Posted: 14th Dec 2007 18:35
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Ha ha, Google returns "Malformed request" if you enter that word :p


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If you can read it out loud perfectly, you get a PHD.

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Posted: 14th Dec 2007 19:54
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I thought that if chemical names counted as words, then a chemical name could be infinate?


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Posted: 14th Dec 2007 19:55
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No.


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Posted: 14th Dec 2007 19:59
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He's kind of right actually. You could make words from an infinite string of chemical symbols. Problem is, for it to be recognised in this way, presumably the compound has to actually exist


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Posted: 14th Dec 2007 20:00
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What if you wanted to give a hypothesis or something similar to the effect that the chemical did exist?


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Posted: 14th Dec 2007 20:05
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A hypothesis does not make something true. You're talking a hypothetical word, in that case, not a true word. It certainly won't make the dictionary. You'll need something existant for that .


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... I meant that if you were to assume that the chemical did exist, fr example if you wanted to prove the effects of it.
Like perpetual motion is impossible, but we stll have a phrase for it.


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Posted: 14th Dec 2007 20:18
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Yes, but that's different from just thinking up a random checmical. Perpetual movement is similar to 'unexistant protein', not similar to a random word of 200,000 characters.


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o_O Eminem could make two or three songs by splitting that word.

But Firefox's spell checker says that the word is wrong.. abd it has no suggestions. Very suspicious.

Quote: "If you know how to read it, you would know exactly how its molecule looks, or something like that"


I guess that, by "point in", he was referring to the tonic syllable. I may be wrong, but I guess it has multiple points, because you need to breath some times. ^^

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Quote: "But Firefox's spell checker says that the word is wrong"


I think because its a chemical name. My version of Firefox considers Saltpeter a word but not kno3.
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That was a mere joke, old chap. >_<

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this is exactly why i think chemicals shouldnt be allowed in the english dictionary...

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Simply add it to your spellchecker


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^^ Yea, then misspell it, FF spell check will probably crash, !

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Posted: 15th Dec 2007 23:21
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i think the name titin is a play on titan. It is a titan of a word

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Posted: 16th Dec 2007 00:31 Edited at: 16th Dec 2007 00:32
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The result of me googling it, myself:

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* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
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