It takes over 3 hours to pronounce!

Found something interesting, thought I'd share.

The longest word in the English language (disputed) has 189,819 letters & takes over three & half hours to pronounce. Its the chemical name for Titin & you can find the whole word here:-

http://www.digitalspy.com/fun/news/...89819-letters-takes-three-hours-to-pronounce/

I would want everyone to stand up & applaud the courage of this brave gentleman who had way too much spare time & was actually crazy enough to pronounce the whole word, in one go (unfortunately, the poor flower couldn't survive the pronunciation).



Pika Pika :chu:

i actually skipped to a couple places in the middle and then to the end :P

who the heck would come up with this? whats the point lol

my god i'd get lost after like 5 lines of that

BadSheep said:

i actually skipped to a couple places in the middle and then to the end :P

who the heck would come up with this? whats the point lol

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Well, if you want a serious answer...

We didn't really come up with it. That one "word" is a mesh of several thousand smaller ones (which you can see if you look closely) which give the sequence of amino acids (the individual building blocks of a protein) in a protein called Titin - a protein obviously designed by nature; hence, we didn't make this word. In the real world, no biologist would ever describe Titin or any other protein of any notable length like this; it's really clunky, difficult to interpret, and there are much more concise and informative ways of describing a protein.

https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=392983

there's not much that could be achieved here that isn't readily available in the linked thread