Contains Silphium, a plant which was a common ingredient in the classical world, but now no one knows exactly what it was. (The leading theory is that it's a real plant that went extinct.) There's much about that world that we don't really know.
I read the article and was disappointed that the full "word" got cut off, but I know that somewhere, there's a German out there who will post something even longer.
I think the ingredient Silphium described in this dish (Now considered extinct) could be Sea Holly (Eryngium spp). Its highly debated as many authors think it is some extinct variety of fennel, but from the images on the coins it doesnt look like a Fennel.
Could be but the central bulb as made on the coins is unlike a fennel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silphium , and since this imaginary recipe is a part of a comedy it is unlikely to be edible. If you look at other ingredients they can surely make someone sick.
The two words that struck me are this chemical compound [1] (quite artificial as a name if you ask me, but apparently considered as a word), and this perfectly real hill name [2]
Yes, the Titin example is completely ridiculous. On the one hand, the protein Titin is one of the longest sequences. However you can form a 'word' out of any protein or DNA (or other macromolecue or polymer) this way.
The key problem for me is that you would never refer to any polypeptide this way in a sentence. It would be like referring to a piece of software by concatenating its source code into one long 'word'. Meaningless.
Legend has it that someone posted the recipe years ago, but the double-whammy of the long title and the HN need to remove "How to make …" broke the site.
Dang, you should change it to "Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiokarabomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon" via your admin superpowers!
I doubt that can happen because that would go over the length limit, probably it should be "The Longest Word In Literature"
as for it screwing with mobile site width, on desktop FF putting width small seems to work fine as the word seems to have soft hyphens in it? Because it splits at the window edge with a hyphen in place.
Well observed, sir. I’m felicitous, since, during the
course of the penultimate solar sojourn, I terminated my uninterrupted
categorisation of the vocabulary of our post-Norman tongue.
I hope you will not object if I also offer my most enthusiastic contrafribularities.
Thus, I’m anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulations.
May I offer you a pendigestatery
interludicule? Anything I can do to facilitate your velocitous
extramuralisation.
Hckrnews.com is a far better frontent. Implemented the long line fix, and also preserves topics that were upvoted to the top and subsequently flagged to death by bot farms or the owners.
I was wondering what’s wrong with the HN site on mobile today. I thought something from my other safari settings carried over thinking is this another macOS / iOS problem. Good to know this time Apple is not to blame. Interesting psychology here how easy it was for me to go there.
Brain figured out this title being the culprit of horizontal scroll today. Brain predicted this being the top comment in this thread. Not disappointed.
I had ChatGPT spend a few kWh coming up with Algorithmostartupoventurecapitoopensourcolicensioprivacysecuritorustigogolokubernetocloudiosaasodistributedodatabasolatencyphoboshowhnaskhncommentopedantolongformoaillmopromptomancyethicoregulatiocontroversioburnoutikon, which apparently describes the vibe here on HN.
Fun false fact that I just invented : the Monty Python briefly considered to have Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitzweimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm to mutter Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiokarabomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon, but John Cleese, who play the man interviewing the last descendent of Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitzweimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm, being a fervent Latin teacher opposed the idea because he thought that was Greek nonsense.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20170907-the-mystery-of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silphium
Presumably not on other browsers, though, as lots of people were complaining.
No bollocks
https://youtu.be/XUQ1xIbziP0
[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Protologisms/Long_wo...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taumatawhakatangi%C2%ADhangako...
The key problem for me is that you would never refer to any polypeptide this way in a sentence. It would be like referring to a piece of software by concatenating its source code into one long 'word'. Meaningless.
As the word-setter this might be an own-goal. As a word guesser, a random haphazard tactic might get you the word.
I'll Monte-Carlo my point but I have a warm bath tub waiting...
Thank goodness Joyce doesn't have the record with his invented words in Finnegans Wake.
as for it screwing with mobile site width, on desktop FF putting width small seems to work fine as the word seems to have soft hyphens in it? Because it splits at the window edge with a hyphen in place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_long_place_names
supercalifragilisticexpialadocious
I hope you will not object if I also offer my most enthusiastic contrafribularities.
Thus, I’m anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulations.
May I offer you a pendigestatery interludicule? Anything I can do to facilitate your velocitous extramuralisation.
Also this may be a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlewhack :) well back in the day
Also make the damn upvote buttons bigger on mobile.