OT: is this real?

[DavidG]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:

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"a word is a unit of speech or writing that symbolizes or communicates a meaning. "

it doesn't say 'that has been used to'. so what i posted is a word.

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I dispute the fact that these words 'communicate a meaning' You think a single person in the world can read or hear those words and get the specific meaning from them? and before anyone mentions it I think it is pretty clear that 'communicate a meaning' means to another human being. (else you could write the word out in binary and call it a long word)

intersting side note. The Guiness people also have a record for the longest 'real' word. (thus of course implying that they don't think DNA is a real word)