Double negatives RULE!
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First prefix is a negative: against that which comes next.
The next one is quite similar: undoing chunks of text.
Now, threefold are the suffixes. The first makes nouns abstract.
The next denotes believers in a thing which they'd call fact.
Last suffix means religion, right? A truth for which we search.
Infix is representative of England's well-known church.
Put them all together and it's really quite absurd.
No longer can we even say it's still the _ _.
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First prefix is a negative: against that which comes next.
The next one is quite similar: undoing chunks of text.
Now, threefold are the suffixes. The first makes nouns abstract.
The next denotes believers in a thing which they'd call fact.
Last suffix means religion, right? A truth for which we search.
Infix is representative of England's well-known church.
Put them all together and it's really quite absurd.
No longer can we even say it's still the _ _.
riddle rhyme
asked Aug 26 at 12:43
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First prefix is a negative: against that which comes next.
The next one is quite similar: undoing chunks of text.
Now, threefold are the suffixes. The first makes nouns abstract.
The next denotes believers in a thing which they'd call fact.
Last suffix means religion, right? A truth for which we search.
Infix is representative of England's well-known church.
Put them all together and it's really quite absurd.
No longer can we even say it's still the _ _.
riddle rhyme
asked Aug 26 at 12:43
Chowzen
11.7k232161
First prefix is a negative: against that which comes next.
The next one is quite similar: undoing chunks of text.
Now, threefold are the suffixes. The first makes nouns abstract.
The next denotes believers in a thing which they'd call fact.
Last suffix means religion, right? A truth for which we search.
Infix is representative of England's well-known church.
Put them all together and it's really quite absurd.
No longer can we even say it's still the _ _.
riddle rhyme
riddle rhyme
asked Aug 26 at 12:43
Chowzen
11.7k232161
asked Aug 26 at 12:43
Chowzen
11.7k232161
asked Aug 26 at 12:43
Chowzen
11.7k232161
asked Aug 26 at 12:43
Chowzen
11.7k232161
asked Aug 26 at 12:43
Chowzen
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I believe you are gesturing towards
ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM
which parses thus:
ANTI (against) DIS (undoing) ESTABLISH (Church of England) MENT (makes nouns abstract) ARIAN (believer in one particular Christian heresy) ISM (suffix found, among other places, in JUDAISM and JAINISM and HINDUISM and so forth).
The blanks, of course, say
LONGEST WORD; although A26M is a very long word, e.g. PNEUMOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVULCANOCONIOSIS is longer.
There is a remark in, I believe, Littlewood's Miscellany to the effect that
A26M is all form and no content: it's made up of prefixes anti-, dis-; the Latin root sto; the suffixes -ment, -ary, -ian, -ism. The letters ST are pretty much the only part that isn't an affix. [EDITED to add:] what he actually says is that it's "all 'form' except for the content 'sto'.
answered Aug 26 at 13:11
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+1 and quickly done! I love how people turn their nose up at coinages as "made up words." All words are made up. By humans. To mean things.
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I believe you are gesturing towards
ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM
which parses thus:
ANTI (against) DIS (undoing) ESTABLISH (Church of England) MENT (makes nouns abstract) ARIAN (believer in one particular Christian heresy) ISM (suffix found, among other places, in JUDAISM and JAINISM and HINDUISM and so forth).
The blanks, of course, say
LONGEST WORD; although A26M is a very long word, e.g. PNEUMOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVULCANOCONIOSIS is longer.
There is a remark in, I believe, Littlewood's Miscellany to the effect that
A26M is all form and no content: it's made up of prefixes anti-, dis-; the Latin root sto; the suffixes -ment, -ary, -ian, -ism. The letters ST are pretty much the only part that isn't an affix. [EDITED to add:] what he actually says is that it's "all 'form' except for the content 'sto'.
answered Aug 26 at 13:11
Gareth McCaughan♦
55.8k3139217
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+1 and quickly done! I love how people turn their nose up at coinages as "made up words." All words are made up. By humans. To mean things.
– Chowzen
Aug 26 at 13:22
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I believe you are gesturing towards
ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM
which parses thus:
ANTI (against) DIS (undoing) ESTABLISH (Church of England) MENT (makes nouns abstract) ARIAN (believer in one particular Christian heresy) ISM (suffix found, among other places, in JUDAISM and JAINISM and HINDUISM and so forth).
The blanks, of course, say
LONGEST WORD; although A26M is a very long word, e.g. PNEUMOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVULCANOCONIOSIS is longer.
There is a remark in, I believe, Littlewood's Miscellany to the effect that
A26M is all form and no content: it's made up of prefixes anti-, dis-; the Latin root sto; the suffixes -ment, -ary, -ian, -ism. The letters ST are pretty much the only part that isn't an affix. [EDITED to add:] what he actually says is that it's "all 'form' except for the content 'sto'.
answered Aug 26 at 13:11
Gareth McCaughan♦
55.8k3139217
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+1 and quickly done! I love how people turn their nose up at coinages as "made up words." All words are made up. By humans. To mean things.
– Chowzen
Aug 26 at 13:22
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up vote
7
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up vote
7
down vote
accepted
I believe you are gesturing towards
ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM
which parses thus:
ANTI (against) DIS (undoing) ESTABLISH (Church of England) MENT (makes nouns abstract) ARIAN (believer in one particular Christian heresy) ISM (suffix found, among other places, in JUDAISM and JAINISM and HINDUISM and so forth).
The blanks, of course, say
LONGEST WORD; although A26M is a very long word, e.g. PNEUMOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVULCANOCONIOSIS is longer.
There is a remark in, I believe, Littlewood's Miscellany to the effect that
A26M is all form and no content: it's made up of prefixes anti-, dis-; the Latin root sto; the suffixes -ment, -ary, -ian, -ism. The letters ST are pretty much the only part that isn't an affix. [EDITED to add:] what he actually says is that it's "all 'form' except for the content 'sto'.
answered Aug 26 at 13:11
Gareth McCaughan♦
55.8k3139217
I believe you are gesturing towards
ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM
which parses thus:
ANTI (against) DIS (undoing) ESTABLISH (Church of England) MENT (makes nouns abstract) ARIAN (believer in one particular Christian heresy) ISM (suffix found, among other places, in JUDAISM and JAINISM and HINDUISM and so forth).
The blanks, of course, say
LONGEST WORD; although A26M is a very long word, e.g. PNEUMOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVULCANOCONIOSIS is longer.
There is a remark in, I believe, Littlewood's Miscellany to the effect that
A26M is all form and no content: it's made up of prefixes anti-, dis-; the Latin root sto; the suffixes -ment, -ary, -ian, -ism. The letters ST are pretty much the only part that isn't an affix. [EDITED to add:] what he actually says is that it's "all 'form' except for the content 'sto'.
answered Aug 26 at 13:11
Gareth McCaughan♦
55.8k3139217
answered Aug 26 at 13:11
Gareth McCaughan♦
55.8k3139217
answered Aug 26 at 13:11
Gareth McCaughan♦
55.8k3139217
answered Aug 26 at 13:11
Gareth McCaughan♦
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55.8k3139217
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+1 and quickly done! I love how people turn their nose up at coinages as "made up words." All words are made up. By humans. To mean things.
– Chowzen
Aug 26 at 13:22
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+1 and quickly done! I love how people turn their nose up at coinages as "made up words." All words are made up. By humans. To mean things.
– Chowzen
Aug 26 at 13:22
1
1
+1 and quickly done! I love how people turn their nose up at coinages as "made up words." All words are made up. By humans. To mean things.
– Chowzen
Aug 26 at 13:22
+1 and quickly done! I love how people turn their nose up at coinages as "made up words." All words are made up. By humans. To mean things.
– Chowzen
Aug 26 at 13:22
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