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Long German word

For [livejournal.com profile] woelfle and [livejournal.com profile] wiebke, who might be amused by such a thing.

This is a word I just actually used in an email:

Konkurrenzauswertungsobjekterfassungsbesonderheiten

I admit, it was a bit tongue-in-cheek, but I used it in a useful context. I know, there are much longer ones, but do they actually get used?
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[identity profile] cob-web.livejournal.com 2004-10-20 06:56 am (UTC)(link)
German is great for long words! What does that one mean? Certain bits of it ring bells but GCSEs were sooo long ago...
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[personal profile] yakalskovich 2004-10-20 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
Oh dear, it's so complicated publishing jargon, I can hardly translate it. "The specialties in inputting data on objects belonging to rival publishers for statistic purposes" is roughly what it means.
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[personal profile] yakalskovich 2004-10-20 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
Quite.-

[identity profile] wiebke.livejournal.com 2004-10-20 07:10 am (UTC)(link)
He he. I'm amused ;)

Caleb is teaching himself German and lately I have been answering lots of strange questions. In fact I am now the German hotline. I will get a call at 11 p.m. saying "How do I say...?" or he'll call me and start reading something to me and then ask me to translate. It's a bit of a nightmare, since I don't always know the answer and I'm afraid he'll think I'm stupid, but hey, I'm out of practice!
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[personal profile] yakalskovich 2004-10-20 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
Well, if you don't know the answer and think the question is legitimate, you can always send me an email.

But nice and long, eh?

[identity profile] woelfle.livejournal.com 2004-10-20 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
What, you really used it? :-D
There's always Qualitätsmanagentberaterin, of which I have material proof, but otherwise, don't know. I think most of the long words can be found in law...
And I'm not thinking or ty<ping straight. Low bloodsugar.
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[personal profile] yakalskovich 2004-10-20 01:44 pm (UTC)(link)
If you're hypoing, you'll need to eat something, judging from the things I read at [livejournal.com profile] cob_web's or [livejournal.com profile] freeformchick's journals.-

Yes, I used it. Because that's what I di today: explain the Konkurrenzauswertungsobjekterfassungsbesonderheiten to the colleague who has to actually enter that data.

[identity profile] woelfle.livejournal.com 2004-10-20 01:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I am eating, but the grapes are somewhat slow.

Are those two diabetics too? There seeem to be a lot...

So, today you were a Konkurrenzauswertungsobjekterfassungsbesonderheitenerklärungsbeauftragte.
:-D
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[personal profile] yakalskovich 2004-10-20 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, they are. There are three on my flist, and all three are among those that I talk to most. Odd.

Yes, exactly, that's what I was - what I still am, in a way! So the word gets even longer, and is still usable. I shall amuse a few people with that word next week. I'm not at work tomorrow, because I go collect cotton bags look at interesting new products at the "Systems" trade fair with [livejournal.com profile] nazgul_nr_5, and on Friday, we go to Nuremberg and see a Nightwish concert.

[identity profile] woelfle.livejournal.com 2004-10-20 02:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Teehee. Insulin druggies everywhere.

My, you must have been editing around with this comment - it showed up in my mailbox with the Captain's name on (Hi Lajos, how's zhings in Übervald?), and then there were some empty messages.

Yay, trade fair. Er, this looks like fair trade, just the other way round. Funnny, wot? *eyes bag o' grapes, takes some more*

Hope you and the Nazgul will have a great time!
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[personal profile] yakalskovich 2004-10-20 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
It's called metaposting.

*goes bright red*

Whe I realised I had posted with the wrong identity, I took it away, and then the reply-tool-thinggy sulked at me a bit, hence the empty messages, I think. I'm sorry.

Things in Überwald are terrifying; the werewolves are at it again. Things are rather spiralling out of control on Lajos's flist just now.

[identity profile] woelfle.livejournal.com 2004-10-20 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, no sorry neccessary, my gamil inbox looked very funny.

I think I should go and join the werewolves at it. :-D

[identity profile] cpt-tantony.livejournal.com 2004-10-20 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, do you? Then you will be on the wrong side of me and Beth, and that can't be very healthy for you. Unless you take side with the One Sane Werewolf, [livejournal.com profile] _angua, or with poor young Dasha (an OC/NPC we accidentally developed).

Metaposting on purpose. Heh!

[identity profile] woelfle.livejournal.com 2004-10-20 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL!

Okay, sign me up with that team. I've got a friend called Dasha, and I'd hate to think something bad happens to her...

*growls, then gets chucked out of internet café*

[identity profile] cpt-tantony.livejournal.com 2004-10-20 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
All sorts of terrible things are threatening Dasha the werewolf at the moment...

"Something bad" doesn't begin to describe it, really.
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