[78-L] Longest title

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> From: Patrick Feaster <pfeaster at gmail.com>
>> Steven C. Barr writes: "I shall try to see if I can create an
>> EXTREMELY long German word based thereupon...?!"
>> In the spirit of keeping things on topic: passengers aboard that Danube
>> steamship who were kept awake at night by the captain's noisy talking
>> machine, and who found him unwilling to "put a sock in it," might have 
>> asked
>> whether he would at least consider some
Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänsphonographenmembranenschwingungsamplitudenverminderungsmaßnahmen!
>> - Patrick
> Easy for YOU to say!  And just how do you plan on getting this title on
> a record (and still leave space for the recording)?
> Mike (my spell chek does not like that word) Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
Sadly, "SpellCheck" (in all its many varieties) sprecht Deutsch nicht! It 
MAY
on German computers (although keeping it up to date would be a MAJOR
challenge...?!). I would recommend our listeners read Mark Twain's essay
on German "extensible" words...in his 19th-century day, much of the US
mid-west was populated by Germans fleeing yet another revolution in
their homeland. Where I grew up (central Illinois), one stood a better 
chance
of being understood in German than English!

Steven C. Barr