The longest Greek word (en.wikipedia.org)

Well this certainly mucked with the width of the mobile HN site.

Reminds me of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico...

antidisestablishmentarianism

supercalifragilisticexpialadocious

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This is why I quit linguistics, Too many syllables.

I want to taste it

HN cut it off at "karab" and I thought this was the generic name of some new drug.

Dang, you should change it to "Lopado­temacho­selacho­galeo­kranio­leipsano­drim­hypo­trimmato­silphio­karabo­melito­katakechy­meno­kichl­epi­kossypho­phatto­perister­alektryon­opte­kephallio­kigklo­peleio­lagoio­siraio­baphe­tragano­pterygon" via your admin superpowers!

Legend has it that someone posted the recipe years ago, but the double-whammy of the long title and the HN need to remove "How to make …" broke the site.

> is the longest word ever to appear in literature

Thank goodness Joyce doesn't have the record with his invented words in Finnegans Wake.

This should have been an April Fools clue on Wheel of Fortune with Vanna White just about to die at the end of having to turn over all the letters.

I think the ingredient Silphium described in this dish (Now considered extinct) could be Sea Holly (Eryngium spp). Its highly debated as many authors think it is some extinct variety of fennel, but from the images on the coins it doesnt look like a Fennel.

I had ChatGPT spend a few kWh coming up with Algorithmo­startupo­venturecapito­open­sourco­licensio­privacy­securito­rustigo­golo­kuberneto­cloudio­saaso­distributedo­databaso­latencyphobo­showhn­askhn­commento­pedanto­longformo­ai­llmo­promptomancy­ethico­regulatio­controversio­burnoutikon, which apparently describes the vibe here on HN.

How to never have anyone play Hangman with you again

I thought this was a news site for tech, not a Red Hot Chili Peppers lyrics repository

I thought it was German and had an awful time trying to parse it. Makes so much more sense once one knows it's Greek.

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An I thought it was about another obscure PHP error.

I'm mostly, and pleasantly, surprised that Firefox's hyphenation algorithm handles this reasonably.

The "context" section of this article is very interesting!

I wonder if this is in meter? I know Philoctetes' pain noises are.

The two words that struck me are this chemical compound [1] (quite artificial as a name if you ask me, but apparently considered as a word), and this perfectly real hill name [2]

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Protologisms/Long_wo...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taumatawhakatangi%C2%ADhangako...