Sunday, February 22, 2009

Long words bore me

When I was in college the word antidisestablishmentarianism was being touted around as being a very long word that showed just how smart you were. Pulling out my handy-dandy dictionary I attempted looking up the word but couldn't find it. I did find antidisesablishment and establishmentarism— so I took their combined meanings and proceeded adding prefixes and suffixes to the word to show off. Fortunately/unfortunately I lost my type-written paper so I had to start over. I now realize that the word did exist (just not in my dictionary) and proceeded to build up the word again. I never realized that what I was doing was building an entomology of the word until I looked up the word recently to get my baseline of the definition. Here is what I came up with:

antidisestablishmentarianism
The movement or ideology of advocates opposed to the separation of a religious group and a government.
pro- + antidisestablishmentarianism
Being for the movement or ideology of advocates opposed to the separation of a religious group and a government.
neo- + proantidisestablishmentarianism
Recently being for the movement or ideology of advocates opposed to the separation of a religious group and a government.
pre- + neoproantidisestablishmentarianism
Just before recently being for the movement or ideology of advocates opposed to the separation of a religious group and a government.
semi- + preneoproantidisestablishmentarianism
The moment somewhat just before recently being for the movement or ideology of advocates opposed to the separation of a religious group and a government.
quasi- + semipreneoproantidisestablishmentarianism
Something that partly resembles the moment somewhat just before recently being for the movement or ideology of advocates opposed to the separation of a religious group and a government.
multi- + quasisemipreneoproantidisestablishmentarianism
Multiple instances of that something that partly resembles the moment somewhat just before recently being for the movement or ideology of advocates opposed to the separation of a religious group and a government.
anthro- + multiquasisemipreneoproantidisestablishmentarianism
The human quality to have multiple instances of that something that partly resembles the moment somewhat just before recently being for the movement or ideology of advocates opposed to the separation of a religious group and a government.
anthromultiquasisemipreneoproantidisestablishmentarianism + -ology
The study of the human quality to have multiple instances of that something that partly resembles the moment somewhat just before recently being for the movement or ideology of advocates opposed to the separation of a religious group and a government.
anthromultiquasisemipreneoproantidisestablishmentarianismology + -sosis
The disease relating to the study of the human quality to have multiple instances of that something that partly resembles the moment somewhat just before recently being for the movement or ideology of advocates opposed to the separation of a religious group and a government.
anthromultiquasisemipreneoproantidisestablishmentarianismologysosis + -ystic
The symptoms of the disease relating to the study of the human quality to have multiple instances of that something that partly resembles the moment somewhat just before recently being for the movement or ideology of advocates opposed to the separation of a religious group and a government.

So…

anthromultiquasisemipreneoproantidisestablishmentarianismologysosisysticly speaking… it's all a bunch of bull.

16 comments:

Deb said...

i'm glad i didn't read this last night after my two margaritas... i might have thrown up!

Dawn Parsons Smith said...

Thank you for my new spelling list for the week...my son will love it....(evil laugh....)

Tony@ That One Paticular Harbor said...

I feel like I just took a big fat bong hit. Wow I feel lost...you are too funny. did you do this sobber? LOL

Llama Wanderings said...

This would have been WAY to much to read last night with my migraine! I was with ya today in understanding, but my eyes did cross at some points and I had to consciously uncross them to continue reading!

Where do you come up some of these wacky ideas!?

Melanie Jacobson said...

Wow, and I thought I was a word nerd.

kel said...

Ok.. are they real words???

kel said...

I take it they aren't... but I love them anyway...

Anonymous said...

I scoff at large words. I'm glad you do too!

Barbaloot said...

Wow---I've never put that much effort into figuring out big words like that. Although I am a fan of words that start with 'p' like pedantic and pretentious. They're just so fun to say:)

ToonEy said...

Holy Crow!!! Imagine spelling the last word on Scrabble...can't imagine how many points that will get???? Probably like a gazillion...you can probably win the game in one fell swoop.

Unknown said...

You did NOT just type that word that many times. Did you?

The Crash Test Dummy said...

ha ha ha ha Long words bore me too! YAWN! But YOU don't bore me.

Mary@Holy Mackerel said...

Wow.

I'm impressed.

And thanks for following me in my hour of need! :o)

Anonymous said...

Haha!! Being the geeky girl that I am, I find this post particularly hilarious! Maybe you didn't mean to be funny, but you got me laughing this morning!

PreciseDisarray said...

Fantastic! I will be sure to work each form of this word into conversation by weeks end. Likely only with my boyfriend who tolerates and joins in on my silly and nerdy moments. We often try to teasingly one-up each other with super long mix of real and fake words. Bizarre, I know...

M@who said...

How are your wrists feeling after that post? I was in tears reading this last night. I'm glad you thought to post this as a blog.

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