The Longest Words in the English Language

[shevchenco]

What did she say?





By far, my favourite long word is: (which is The Tobacco Mosaic Virus or also known as Dahlemense Strain. This word has appeared in the American Chemical Society's Chemical Abstracts)



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[Frisbeetarian]

You gotta be ******* kidding me. Is that a word or a paragraph?
BTW if you pronounce it all right, fiery rocks will fall from the sky and ants will rlue the earth.

[fidelio]

I don't get it shev. Try using it in a sentence so we can get the meaning from context...

[Dalzi]

What's all this about? Poppins and her long word, mafhoum. But what's that thing starting with A and ending with E up there?

[sarhay]

Originally Posted by shevchenco

What did she say?





By far, my favourite long word is: (which is The Tobacco Mosaic Virus or also known as Dahlemense Strain. This word has appeared in the American Chemical Society's Chemical Abstracts)



ACETYLSERYLTYROSYLSERYLISOLEUCYLTHREONYLSERYLPROLY LSERYLGLUTAMINYLPHENYLALANYLVALYLPHENYLALANYLLEUCY LSERYLSERYLVALYLTRYPTOPHYLALANYLASPARTYLPROLYLISOL EUCYLGLUTAMYLLEUCYLLEUCYLASPARAGINYLVALYLCYSTEINYL THREONYLSERYLSERYLLEUCYLGLYCYLASPARAGINYLGLUTAMINY LPHENYLALANYLGLUTAMINYLTHREONYLGLUTAMINYLGLUTAMINY LALANYLARGINYLTHREONYLTHREONYLGLUTAMINYLVALYLGLUTA MINYLGLUTAMINYLPHENYLALANYLSERYLGLUTAMINYLVALYLTRY PTOPHYLLYSYLPROLYLPHENYLALANYLPROLYLGLUTAMINYLSERY LTHREONYLVALYLARGINYLPHENYLALANYLPROLYLGLYCYLASPAR
TYLVALYLTYROSYLLYSYLVALYLTYROSYLARGINYLTYROSYLASPA RAGINYLALANYLVALYLLEUCYLASPARTYLPROLYLLEUCYLISOLEU
CYLTHREONYLALANYLLEUCYLLEUCYLGLYCYLTHREONYLPHENYLA LANYLASPARTYLTHREONYLARGINYLASPARAGINYLARGINYLISOL EUCYLISOLEUCYLGLUTAMYLVALYLGLUTAMYLASPARAGINYLGLUT AMINYLGLUTAMINYLSERYLPROLYLTHREONYLTHREONYLALANYLG LUTAMYLTHREONYLLEUCYLASPARTYLALANYLTHREONYLARGINYL ARGINYLVALYLASPARTYLASPARTYLALANYLTHREONYLVALYLALA NYLISOLEUCYLARGINYLSERYLALANYLASPARAGINYLISOLEUCYL ASPARAGINYLLEUCYLVALYLASPARAGINYLGLUTAMYLLEUCYLVAL YLARGINYLGLYCYLTHREONYLGLYCYLLEUCYLTYROSYLASPARAGI NYLGLUTAMINYLASPARAGINYLTHREONYLPHENYLALANYLGLUTAM YLSERYLMETHIONYLSERYLGLYCYLLEUCYLVALYLTRYPTOPHYLTH
REONYLSERYLALANYLPROLYLALANYLSERINE

Shev:
this is just a amino acids sequence of a protein that when you spell out every amino acid name you get the above. If this is the case, then you can get mcuh longer amino acid chains of much larger proeins and have fun name them and make your new longest english "word":).

[Rors]

That's right, it's just a sequence of a protein synthetised by the TMV. Sequences like that are usually written with Letters (each amino acid is symbolised with a letter). Just like a DNA sequence, this is a protein sequence.
For instance:
Serine = S
Tyrosine = Y
Valine = V
Arginine = R
and so on...

So if i take the first line of your protein, it would look like this:
C2H5-SYSITSP...

[shevchenco]

Originally Posted by sarhay

Shev:
this is just a amino acids sequence of a protein that when you spell out every amino acid name you get the above. If this is the case, then you can get mcuh longer amino acid chains of much larger proeins and have fun name them and make your new longest english "word":).

I know! once I read about a protein whose chemical name is a bit more than 4000 letters.

[suomynona]

antidisestablishmentarianism

:) try to pronounce it 10 times.

[sarhay]

Originally Posted by shevchenco

I know! once I read about a protein whose chemical name is a bit more than 4000 letters.

Shev, you seems to be outdated with the development on the length of proteins amino acid chains 4000 letters is peanut when you meet the "titin" protein. This muscular protein has 34,350 aa letters, try to pronounce that for a weekend activity
FYI, chemical names are considered as "verbal formulae" rather than "words". rgds