[B-Greek] longest word

Gene Baker ekbaker at essex1.com
Fri Jan 14 23:44:36 EST 2011


 It looks atrocious.  How might this word be translated, since my lung capacity will not allow me to pronounce it?   



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From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Carl Conrad
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 7:25 PM
To: Shirley Rollinson
Cc: James Ernest; b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] longest word


On Jan 14, 2011, at 8:01 PM, Shirley Rollinson wrote:

> Dear James,
> How about 
> the multipenult
> the protima
> or the archima
> 
> The semester is about to begin, and the silly season is upon us :-)
> Shirley Rollinson

In that case, as an alternative, I suggest:

the prototypical ultimate anteantepenult -- a term applicable to 
any and all syllables preceding the antepenult, (ir)regardless 
of the syllable's quantity. You may apply it without further 
ado to συπερκαλιφραγιλιστικεξπιαλιδώσιος with total 
confidence that you will not be mislabeling any of those 
antecedent syllables. One thing you can be sure of: you 
need never place an accent on a prototypical ultimate
anteantepenult. Another thing you can be sure of is that it
will never behave outrageously as if it were an enclitic. It
is much too embarrassed at having to suffer forever a
tonally neutered existence.


Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)



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