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From: Graham Allan <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 00:28:00 BST-1
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The nearest I can remember is ....

"Some German words are so long that they have a perspective. Observe
these examples:

Freundschaftsbezeigungen.
Dilettantenaufdringlichkeiten.
Stadtverordnetenversammlungen.

These things are not words, they are alphabetical processions.
...

Generalstaatsverordnetenversammlungen.
Alterthumswissenschaften.
Kinderbewahrungsanstalten.
Unabhaengigkeitserklaerungen.
Wiedererstellungbestrebungen.
Waffenstillstandsunterhandlungen.

Of course when one of these grand mountain ranges goes stretching across
the printed page, it adorns and ennobles that literary landscape but at
the same time it is a great distress to the new student, for it blocks up
his way; he  ... "

This was from Appendix D of A Tramp Abroad.


Best regards

Graham Allan
Maidstone
Kent
United Kingdom

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