Re: [lojban] Re: rafsi - the Lakhota way?

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

pycyn@aol.com wrote:

> Other famous ones suggest themselves immediately: Blitzkrieg, Zeitgeist,
> Gauleiter, all those wonderful officers Oberschuetzarmeekommandant, and
> religious leaders Undreifaltigskeitenglaeuber and on and on. 

My favorites are Mark Twain's
Konstantinopolitanischerdudelsackspfeifenmachengesellschaft (Constantinople
Bagpipe Manufacturing Company) and the word for "bootlegger":
Antivereinigenstaatenskonstitutionenspirituosenwarenhaendler.
Ganz klar, both of them.

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