[B-Greek] longest word
Carl Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sat Jan 15 05:03:11 EST 2011
On Jan 14, 2011, at 11:44 PM, Gene Baker wrote:
> It looks atrocious. How might this word be translated, since my lung capacity will not allow me to pronounce it?
If you will transliterate it, you may recognize it. It was sung by Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke in "Mary Poppins."
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
> -----Original Message-----
> 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.
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