Talk:Floccinaucinihilipilification
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I've added my own pronounciation. Hope it's okay with you, if not just say why and you can take it down. Fin01 18:16, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
I've 'harvested' all these quotes from various sources on the web. Not sure where to draw the copywrite line with quotes from public figures. --justfred
You're fine - you've identified your sources, and press statements have been quoted well within the "fair-usage" and "proper-attribution" guidelines. - Manning Bartlett
... as well as Cliff Claven of Cheers: (found reference but can't find actual quote!)
Does anyone know where to source this from?
Where does Sen. Moynahan fit in? Verloren
Should be noted, but he apparently uses it regularly, supposedly Helms learned it from him.--justfred
I removed this section from the article:
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[edit] Fun
- What would happen if one were to convert the classic "wood chuck" toungue twister by appropriately changing the words to the correct forms of floccinaucinihilipilification? It might go like this:
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- How many floccinaucinihilipilifications would a floccinaucinihilipilificating floccinaucinihilipilificator floccinaucinihilipilificate if a floccinaucinihilipilificating floccinaucinihilipilificator could floccinaucinihilipilificate floccinaucinihilipilifications?
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- Why, a floccinaucinihilipilificating floccinaucinihilipilificator would floccinaucinihilipilificate as many floccinaucinihilipilifications as a floccinaucinihilipilificating floccinaucinihilipilificator could floccinaucinihilipilificate if a floccinaucinihilipilificating floccinaucinihilipilificator could floccinaucinihilipilificate floccinaucinihilipilifications.
I want to hit you right now, my tongue is twisted so bad. :p -Alex. 12.220.157.93 12:27, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Possible Consequences of Floccinaucinihilipilification
- For want of a nail, the shoe was lost,
- For want of the shoe, the horse was lost,
- For want of the horse, the rider was lost,
- For want of the rider, the battle was lost,
- For want of the battle, the kingdom was lost,
- And all for the want of a horseshoe nail!
For want of a rivet, ... the airplane was lost.
For want of a tile (or tiles), ... the space shuttle was lost.
For want of a species, ... the ecosystem was lost. (See biodiversity.)
For want of a comma, ... the text was misunderstood.
For want of a character, ... the computer program malfunctioned.
For want of a job qualification, ... the job prospect was lost (from the candidate's standpoint) and the job candidate was lost (from the employer's standpoint).
Thanks to the likes of Geiko their advertising forced me to seek out the meaning and correct spelling of this very ironic term. Never has a spelling bee's use of a term shut me down and have me cracking up at the very idea of a word having so many damn "I's". LMAO But I must admit it was fun to Google!
64.107.1.74 16:50, 29 September 2005 (UTC) Poetess X, Chicago,IL
[edit] Quotation marks
The bit about quotation marks in the OED entry is just plain wrong. They are there to mark stress (' for primary, " for secondary). In fact the entry looks like this: "flocci"nauci"nihili"pilifi'cation.
[edit] Latin phrase
"I don't make wool" is hyper-literal to the point of being nonsense. I have changed the translation to reflect the fact that facio is so general it really doesn't mean anything on its own, and therfore the idiom really holds little besides its idiomatic meaning. --24.17.30.163 07:17, 19 January 2006 (UTC)#
From looking at the lating words used to make up this word its seems that they are all used to basically describe the same thing. Worthlessness. Therefore it seems to me that this is a manafactured word simply to become the longest word in the dictionary.
[edit] Audio pronunciation requested
Please.
- Done. SergeantBolt 16:54, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
Lotsofissues 01:53, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Genitive form?
- Used in feminine genitive form of floccinaucinihilipilificatrix
Wouldn't the genitive form be floccinaucinihilipilificatrix's?
[edit] German entry
At the moment, there is a German entry, but, as the German Wiks often like to cut any article that isn't "ellenlang," it is up for deletion. Therefore, I haven't linked to it - but if it is still around in a week, the link should be added. Kdammers 23:39, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
what about Floccinaucinihilipilificatiously? that's 3 letter's longer than the original.
