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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (4 children)

My bet would be on a European one, potentially German, where it would be 35 letters that look exactly like a cat barfed on the keyboard

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Kaltdunkeltrauerverzweifelungsvollraum. However, even Germans would not combine all this and say something like ein kalter, dunkler Raum voll Trauer und Verzweiflung.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Fight me: Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

Yes this is one word and it makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Beef labeling monitoring task transfer act"

Excuse me??

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

I did not ask you to translate it! Now you openended Pandoras Büchse

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Using compound words is just cheating.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If it's just a compound noun it's no fun, because it's just a literal translation of those same words except there's no spaces between the individual words in German