Willeke
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In the small you can show better what you want to say. So make one word, but not as long as the longest dutch word, which much have many letters. The version I remember, (and it can be lengthened in many ways) is:
Hottentottententententoonstellingsterreinbeheerderswachthuisjesvoordeurknopmaker swerkplaats......
I noticed that the forum software is not able to handle a long word like this, it is one word, there should not be a space in it, (it is at the wrong place to break the word in any case.)
I noticed that I started to make up more parts of the word. In English you will never have a word as long as this, in Dutch it is not uncommen to add parts of words together to make a longer new word. Bread translate to Brood, board to plank, and cubboard to kastje, in dutch you can have a broodplankkastje, but in English a word like breadboardcubboard is broken into smaller parts.
I think here we should go for words that are basicly not a sentence without spaces but words that are discribtive and may have little to do with correct spelling.
Willeke
(By the way, if someone gives me the correct english translation for that long Dutch word, I try to send a prize.)
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