Probably the longest word in the English language, floccinaucinihilipilification is a noun meaning the act of estimating or judging something as worthless or trivial. It got a mention in the comments of a catallaxy blog of 2010.
I don’t hate the Gillard Government. I floccinaucinihilipilificate it.
It is without doubt the worst Government in Australia’s history and an absolute disgrace.
Trivial it ain’t.
Find a lovely word that includes illigitimate, lying bastards in its meaning.
Amfotas
16 Oct 12 at 7:13 pm
Well I do. With an absolute passion.
I also despise the so called independents, who are ultimately responsible for this disgraceful, utterly illegitimate, criminal circus.
Rabz
16 Oct 12 at 7:17 pm
I loathe and despise the gillard rainbow “government”. I have never ever felt this level of animosity toward any previous government.
Gab
16 Oct 12 at 7:22 pm
Nice link back to a civil, on topic conversation there Samuel J.
Certain commenters were noticeably absent.
Thanks.
jumpnmcar
16 Oct 12 at 7:26 pm
I’m with Rabz and Gab. I loathe this useless collection of dunderheads with the fire of a thousand suns. They have not one redeeming feature between the lot of them. I’ve never been involved in politics but when Macklin voted to keep Slipper on the payroll I made up my mind that I would volunteer to help out the Coalition on election day whenever it might be.
They do not deserve anything but utter contempt.
Megan
16 Oct 12 at 7:30 pm
Wow! That’s a floccin big word! Dethspicable seems easier.
Biota
16 Oct 12 at 7:40 pm
It’s not a real word. It’s a word invented for the purposes of being the longest word.
dd
16 Oct 12 at 7:42 pm
Since it dates from around 1735 I don’t think you can say it is not a real word. It has a pedigree missing in some modern words!
Samuel J
16 Oct 12 at 7:46 pm
How is Gillard worse from a conservative viewpoint than Ben Chiefly?
* Tried to nationalize the banks
* Nationalized the airlines
* tried to nationalize medicine, and set up the PBS
* Got a referendum up allowing the Federal Government to run health care, unemployment, and a whole range of social services
* Tried to get a referendum up allowing price controls
PSC
16 Oct 12 at 7:53 pm
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcan is a terribly long word and describes some sort of lung disease, and is in some dictionaries.
candy
16 Oct 12 at 7:54 pm
No fair, Candy. That’s a medical term.
Gab
16 Oct 12 at 8:02 pm
I suppose Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch does not count, because it is a place in Anglesey, North Wales, although the English recognise it as a word.
BT
16 Oct 12 at 8:02 pm
How about tonyabbottepitethentaimania. I just coined it, it means roughly “obsessive attacking of Tony Abbott”.
Mother Hubbard's Dog
16 Oct 12 at 8:03 pm
I thought antidisestablishmentarianism was the longest word, but apparrently it only the ‘Longest non-coined and nontechnical word’
papachango
16 Oct 12 at 8:05 pm
PSC, there a lot of conservatives that might not have a problem with that Chifleyist. Katter, for example, is running around arguing for a state bank able to give ‘special’ people cheap loans.
entropy
16 Oct 12 at 8:19 pm
Chifley list
entropy
16 Oct 12 at 8:21 pm
To clarify, socialists like Katter think of themselves as conservative.
entropy
16 Oct 12 at 8:23 pm
You’re all a bunch of antidisestablishmentarians.
TimT
16 Oct 12 at 8:26 pm
I agree Sam.
A few weeks ago I joined the liberal party, not through any love for them, but simply because I have decided that I have to do everything within my power and within the law to throw out of power this mob of shysters, hucksters, racketeers, misanthropes, brothel-creepers, sociopaths, mental retards and felons.
Let me know if I left any truths off that list.
I am the Walrus koo koo k'choo
16 Oct 12 at 8:29 pm
Isn’t this a word originated in Eton or something? Jacob Rees Mogg, a Tory MP, recently used it in a speech to the House of Commons.
faust
16 Oct 12 at 8:46 pm
Actually, this blog is filled with neoconservative disestablishmentarians. It is the leftists here like me who are in the vanguard of antidisestablishmentarianism.
m0nty
16 Oct 12 at 8:52 pm
The Gillard government’s front bench are clearly Super-cali-fragilistic-expiali-douchebags
The Old and Unimproved Dave
16 Oct 12 at 8:57 pm
Evidence for which is ????? It’s first usuage I mean, when it became part of the “vernacular”, argot, etc.
Louis Hissink
16 Oct 12 at 8:58 pm
I think one of the reasons Gillard is so dreadful is the same reason Obama has been so horrible in the US. They are not trying to govern a nation as best as possible. They honestly believe they are part of a Transformational process to move away from individualism, fossil fuels, and nation-states. They wish to hide the full extent of their Worldview from the voters and taxpayers because enough of us might rebel in time.
It is not coincidental in the least that both came up through education “reforms.” They have been taking part in gaining a cultural shift via the schools and then the colleges and universities that would make the Transformation a fait accompli before it could be noticed and fully appreciated.
Instead they have turned klieg lights on what is actually going on. Terrible with a Purpose.
Robin
16 Oct 12 at 8:59 pm
Yes but as a spectacle it’s very very fkn funny.
Pickles
16 Oct 12 at 9:01 pm
Yes Robin.
Pickles
16 Oct 12 at 9:03 pm
Jeez Samuel, I just clicked on the link back to your 2010 post:
lol…. How’s that workin’ out for ya?
papachango
16 Oct 12 at 9:20 pm
Gillard: SlapperCowAFragileLinguistExpropriatingUsInDoses.
Spatacrobat
16 Oct 12 at 9:47 pm
Oh? You don’t like the separation of church and state? What sort of state religion do you want? Environmentalism? Socialism?
I can’t say I’m surprised, but I’m surprised you admit it.
Dangph
16 Oct 12 at 9:51 pm
Louis – the OED
Papachango – yes that was a vain hope! If anything, the Gillard government is LESS focussed on substance and the national interest than was the Rudd Government.
Samuel J
16 Oct 12 at 10:01 pm
And I did write then
Samuel J
16 Oct 12 at 10:01 pm
BT, thunder-stealer:
I want to say to the leek-eating redhead:
“But as it is, my language fails!
go BACK and govern Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch!”
(with profound apologies to Hilaire Belloc.)
Hugh
16 Oct 12 at 10:06 pm
Words make me happy. I sprinkle them on my breakfast, then add yoghurt and milk. You can also have them with eggs and toast soldiers, or at night by the fire with an Irish coffee and Turkish Delight. Taken at night like this they aid sleep.
All words are edible, but very long words give me indigestion. Thus not recommended. Wrap them in newspaper and put them into the garbage.
DO NOT RECYLE THEM.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
16 Oct 12 at 10:35 pm
And here was I thinking Abbottabbottabbottabbottabbottabbottabbottabbottabbottabbott was the longest word and certainly the longest one in common and constant usage on the ABC and by Labor pond scum.
Ubique
16 Oct 12 at 11:31 pm
Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan Amonphimanawatansathit Sakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit
Well try saying the full Thai name of Bangkok normally referred to as Krungthep. Nothing to add about our government.
kelly liddle
17 Oct 12 at 12:39 am
I’m referring to the word in general usage, not with specific reference to the Church of England.
m0nty
17 Oct 12 at 8:57 am
It is the leftists here like me who are in the vanguard of antidisestablishmentarianism.
Whatever you asseverate, your honorificabilitudinitatibus.
TimT
17 Oct 12 at 9:00 am
Oh? I assumed you weren’t talking about the Church of England. I already took the word in the widest possible sense I could think of as “one who is in favor of a state religion”. So what did you mean exactly when you say you are an antidisestablishmentarian?
I think more likely is that you didn’t understand what the word meant—you no doubt mistook it to mean anti-establishment—and now you are trying to cover up your mistake rather than admit to it.
Dangph
17 Oct 12 at 9:27 am
Macquarie to publish dictionary of Gillard English
From Bolta. Words fail me.
Helen Armstrong
17 Oct 12 at 9:30 am
I doubt it’s due to pressure from Gillard, Helen. Maybe, though, they have decided to update the definition as a result of the use by politicians in recent times. (Of course, pollies can mangle the English language pretty badly from time, so this isn’t necessarily a good decision.) In short, a result of internal Macquarie Dictionary processes.
The meaning of misogyny has always been pretty clear to me – ‘misogyny: hatred of women’. I just checked in Macquarie Online and this is to date their only definition. If and when Macquarie do update their definition, it would still include ‘Hatred of women’ as their number one definition, and it would include the new definition as a subsidiary one.
And, sorry to be a frightful bother, but I have a comment in moderation….
TimT
17 Oct 12 at 10:12 am
Given that change of definition for the word ‘misogyny’ by the Maquarie Dictionary (as pointed out by Helen above), can we get an estimate of when the usual leftist suspects on the Cat (m0nty, hammyracist, et al) will post their apologies for their mysogynist comments about female conservative politicians (Sarah Palin as an example)?
Or are they going to once again demonstrate their blatant hypocrisy?
Brian of Moorabbin
17 Oct 12 at 2:21 pm