Learn something new everyday!

[VitalSpark 1,830]

I'm guessing it was deliberate.

 

It certainly would have been. Moffat and Gatiss are the kind of people who take pride in little details like this. If you like Sherlock, you ought to check out Moffat's 2007 series Jekyll which was an update/sequel for The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and also happened to include Gatiss in one or two episodes. Why they never made a second series of Jekyll is a complete mystery to me - it was very popular, and the last episode left things wide open.

Edited January 17, 2015 by Vital Spark

[MechanicalDoom 300]

I learned that I'm apparently a good enough person for a random person on the internet to wanna be my friend.

[Spirit Rush 497]

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words! 

 

The person who made that word must have been a jerk! 

[spits 71]

I learned quite a bit today with Tyler Moore's tutorials on how to make WordPress Websites.  He covered he wide variety of plugins as well as ways to create a logo. 

[SasQ 1,376]

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words!

The person who made that word must have been a jerk!

Well then people speaking High German language are überjerks

They use way much longer words on a daily basis. Here's an example (tip: it is MLP-related )

 

Vierteponyzeichentrickspielreihestaffelerstaufführungsdiskussionsfaden

 

Yup, that's a single word It means something in these lines:

 

"Fourth-generation cartoon pony TV series season premiere discussion thread"

 

@ & @@Milky Jade: nice, more "Sherlock" fans I guess :>

Edited January 17, 2015 by SasQ

[Milky Jade 138]

@@SasQ, No german ever uses a word that long;

and what are those quotation marks supposed to mean..?

[EddG 554]

I've known this for a while but.

In Europe, Sonic The Hedgehog for the SEGA MegaDrive/Genesis runs 25% slower than it's American or Japanese Counterpart,

[SasQ 1,376]

@SasQ, No german ever uses a word that long;

I didn't say German, I said High German. It is a dialect of German.

The example I provided in my previous post is according to this user on Polish MLP Wiki.

 

Of course he could have misguided me, so after your protest I decided to investigate it further: I made this search phrase and it provided even more examples of ridiculously long German words (exhibit #1, exhibit #2, exhibit #3 etc.), one of them (an 80-letter one!) even supposedly recorded in the Guinness's World Record Book in 1996. There is (well, was) also a bill with a ridiculously long word in its name, proposed in the German state parliament in 1999 according to this Wikipedia article (and confirmed by several other sources).

 

So perhaps the MLP Wiki user I referred was wrong that this phenomenon is particular only to High German dialect – according to the evidence supported, it is more widespread and applies to the German language in general.

 

and what are those quotation marks supposed to mean..?

Which quotation marks?

Edited January 18, 2015 by SasQ

[ChrisEggII 44]

Today I learned how to swear in Greenlandic language. Very useful skill.

[Queen Sparkle 104]

I learned that after you're on mod queue for a while and it's still not off your thing it just auto approves everything

[SCS 7,537]

I learned that after you're on mod queue for a while and it's still not off your thing it just auto approves everything

 

Nope. As long as you're on the mod queue all of your posts are read and approved or disapproved by staff.

[Milky Jade 138]

@@SasQ, Well, I fear you're being lied to. Like so many. Germans are good at compound words, but that's just about it. I can invent words like that on my own, but the longer they get, the more you're just... building a sentence without breaks. Which doesn't happen. There is no widespread use of tongue twisting yourself into asphyxiation.

 

High german has nothing to do with it either, the distinction is false, sorry to say. High german just happens to be the written german (and legally required for everything official), the common tongue (think english in LOTR), dialects only rarely appear outside of spoken form. Examples of long words you *could* use doesn't make them common or even unique to german... the longest german word I've came across in my time was Löschwassereinspeisung. That's not remarkably long, in my opinion, it's on par with... "anime convention". Those gargantuan words you found are more like inside jokes, ya know? They exist, but only unto and for the sake of.. itself.

 

Bottom line: if the word is too long, there is a better word for it, and if it's even longer, it was contrived by some smart-arse. Take my word for it. Won't you?

[GenderIsAnIllusion 2,177]

Today i learned that faces, and concrete, were never ever meant to met at moderate to high velocities.

[Shanks 10,816]

Yesterday I learned that the duties of a slave in ancient Egypt are much more diverse and varied than I thought. I knew that slaves were often employed for field work and to build tombs and pyramids but I didn't know that slaves were also employed as soldiers and artisans.

[Discordian 6,015]

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/new-amazing-metal-is-so-hydrophobic-it-makes-water-boun-1680799039

 

There's a good number of things this could be used for. Maybe someday they'll be able to apply the same thing to plastics or cloth. Weather can be one of the most detrimental reasons technology is held back.

[RainbowTashie 378]

Today I learned It's not wise to play a game that you are only half-decent at if you are depressed.

i'm with ya sugarcube! consoles will fly!

[SasQ 1,376]

Today I learned the power of my lucky number related to my birth date

 

That is, I figured out that there is a certain Magic Number^TM which, when I multiply my lucky number (7) so many times,, the result will start with the digits of my birth date (1982-12-03). Here's what I'm talking about:

 

7^1316831 = 19821203202357042996...2076482743

 

But more importantly, I figured out a general "mathemagical spell" for conjuring up such powers for any numbers whatsoever. Wanna learn your own Magic Number? Then I invite you to this thread

Edited January 24, 2015 by SasQ

[Yellow Diamond 7,569]

A few days ago I learned that Oklahoma's panhandle exists because Texas entered the Union as a slave state; thus it needed to remain below the 36°30' boundary established by the Missouri Compromise.

[SparklingSquirrels 21,341]

Today I learned that Lithuanian is the closest living language to proto- Indo-European.

 

Yup, that's very important all right

[Twisted Cyclone 🚓 6,259]

Me being a weather person, I learned that the tornado my Dad was in was on the ground for 121 miles making it the longest surviving tornado in the Super Outbreak of 1974 which spawned a total of 148 tornadoes.

[ChikaChan 7,323]

The only thing I learned today is my parents are big meanies and they don't care of taking care of me and they called me names!!! and other stuff,and also they lock me outside and let me STARVED ONE TIME!!!.......sorry I have to get it out somehow :/

[CC_Maud_Pie 6,431]

I learned that I have a certain type of Scottish blood; Glasgow (from my dad) and Highland (from my grandparents).

[TheJLeeTeam 914]

Dear Princess Celestia,

 

I learned that should try the food I make in cooking class even if I don't like it like meatballs. So I tried one and I thought it tasted gross. I'm still supposed to fill out a worksheet.

[gone~ 614]

Ancient Greek sculptures were actually painted, not blank marble.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_sculpture#Painting_of_sculpture

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/true-colors-17888/

[Stary Dash 83]

Happy Only Pi (3.14.15) Day of out lives! to day is a mathematical day! (even tho i hate math! lol)