[B-Greek] longest word

Sarah Madden sarah.r.madden at gmail.com
Sat Jan 15 05:45:12 EST 2011


Mary Poppins would have loved συπερκαλιφραγιλιστικεξπιαλιδώσιος -- You all
are too clever for words. Oh, wait, you ARE clever for words, ergo this fun
string of erudite musings. Yes, the silly season is happily upon us.  :-)


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On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com> wrote:

>
> 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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