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    Default Re: The new unit card project teaser.

    Quote Originally Posted by Bootsiuv
    So that's really a word?

    Heh, your guy's spelling bees must suck.
    Yes it could be a word, even though you won't find it in any dictonary. The thing is, that you can create new words by adding two or more existing words. That is the reason why German was so popular among scholars until the middle of the 20th Century. It allowed them to describe new aspects by creating new words.

    To our Hottentotten-potentaten-gross-tanten-attentats-versuch

    Hottentotten are an African people
    Potentat is a ruler
    Tante is aunt, and Grosstante would be grandaunt
    Attentat is asissination and Attentatsversuch is tried assisination


    But no one (except for laywers or legal texts) uses words of that size, at least not seriously. It would be: "Das versuchte Attentat auf die Grosstante des Hottentottenpotentaten".
    Last edited by konny; 10-09-2007 at 09:31.

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