Trivia

[Iain]

Not wishing to upset with his 'Squidger', what is the meaning of
Floccipoccinihilipilification
Clue..applies to politicians.

[Shane Watson]

Politicians? Who cares about them, there practicaly useless anyway.

Damn long word though Iain. Must be close to the longest word ever??

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I won't let the secret out though...

[oges]

geez think i sprained something trying to pronounce that...

does it mean 'rip off the public with any means possible'? http://ubb.ubeaut.com.au/ubb/biggrin.gif


Brett

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[RETIRED]

Gooday.

Right about pertaining to Pollies, but I could name others, er some architects, a lot of do-gooders etc.

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[John Saxton]

Sounds like a flaccid pollie to me which makes sense.....impotent and insipid!!

[bobmundy]

Architect..... Heard one say, "Six months ago I couldn't spell architect, now I are one!!"

[Iain]

Careful Johnno, most pollies don't know the difference between impotent and omnipotent (Is there a difference?)

[Shane Watson]

Alright Iain,

When ya gonna let the cat out of the bag? Seems like a few of us already know http://ubb.ubeaut.com.au/ubb/biggrin.gif



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[Tristan Croll]

Hehehe... definitely a pollie thing. I'm sure there's lots of other floccipoccinihilipilificators out there, though (e.g. bosses, wives,...).


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[Iain]

I must confess that the clue was a trick question. The word is one of those little (?) gems of which the explanation/definition is probably shorter than the word itself.
The definition is 'To render useless' eg:Melbourne Public Transport.
Politicians are useless before entering the field, I think it is a pre requisite, however, they have the opposite of the Midas touch, anything they touch is rendered useless.

[Shane Watson]

And THIS (http://www.dd.chalmers.se/~f95lith/longword.html) is just a little useless information on Floccipoccinihilipilification.


Cheers....

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[Tristan Croll]

An alternative definition (at least according to my dictionary) is "to assess as useless" - hence my 2.2 cents above.

[Rod Smith]

That must be where the good old ozzie term "poxy" comes from, makes sense.

[Iain]

Quote.......
Floccipoccinihilipilification

Pronounced: flox-ee-pox-ee-ni-hi-li-pi-li-fi-cay-shun.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records,
this is the longest word in the English language.
It means "the act of rendering as useless."

This word is one letter longer than antidisestablishmentarianism,
and contains much fewer morphemes.


And now my little bit, yep, poxy or poxie, seems it may stem from this word which was commonly used amongst the convicts on the first fleet.........

[oges]

Who is reponsible for the English language I ask! We have big long words like "Floccipoccinihilipilification" and then get told they are pronounced "flox-ee-pox-ee-ni-hi-li-pi-li-fi-cay-shun", why cant they just spell them like that in the first place! http://ubb.ubeaut.com.au/ubb/biggrin.gif

(sorry .. must be the low caffeine levels in my blood stream..)

[JackoH]

Phonetic language indeed !!!! Shouldn`t that be "FONETIC" !!!!! And I`m not shouting . Honest http://ubb.ubeaut.com.au/ubb/frown.gif

John H.