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Middle Barael wrote:

No, the long Welsh name is

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

I’m not Welsh but somehow I am actually able to pronounce it very well, and I use it sometimes to practice certain harder sounds in the IPA.

Ah, Europe's most favourite word. I am unable to pronounce it without training but a video of news host saying it was impressive

not welsh, but being a fan of railways, and especially narrow gauge railways, i've seen the station sign for llanfair about a zillion times,
and i've heard generally the llanfair part is about as much as anyone normally tries to pronounce. its enough to know what place they're talking about.

other words for the amusement of being long exist, i can think of two of them, but neither are longer.

a castle within a castle would only be sustainable long term if it encompassed a fully functional and self sustaining ecosystem.
which is essentially what you would need for a multi-generational transit to most other solar systems likely to have a life supporting planet.

Middle Barael wrote:

No, the long Welsh name is

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

I’m not Welsh but somehow I am actually able to pronounce it very well, and I use it sometimes to practice certain harder sounds in the IPA.

What about Taumatawhakatangihangakōauauotamateapōkaiwhenuakitānatahu? It's not Welsh but even longer.

Nation of Ecologists wrote:

fun fact: the letters ll in Welsh make the "ch" sounds, the letters au make the "aye" sound and the letters ch make the sound "qh" ( I think that's the phonology for it)

Eh, I’d describe the <ll> as an /s/ but with your toungue touching the sides of the mouth, to make a slushy sound.

And as for <ch>, it makes a /χ/ (uvular voiceless fricative)

Chan Island wrote:

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So this has inspired me to go do a bit of digging on the guy's name and, well...

viewtopic.php?f=23&t=220685&p=12628233&hilit=name#p12628233

viewtopic.php?f=23&t=205242&p=11864271&hilit=name#p11864271

So twice in 2012 and 2013, long name answered a thread about how you got your nation's name claiming that if you mix the letters but remove the second capital (which would be the B), then it is related to the company which he worked at that time for.

.... Which raises even more questions. What is a Eaischpnaeieacgkque hcieaghpodsttditf? And what distinct meaning does that have?

Meanwhile, there are a few other clues lying around as to his influences. He regularly uses the Cyrillic script in threads to name locations within the nation, such as a province and the capital city, which is also matched by his entry in the NS wiki (which doesn't have an entry on me so clearly must be worthless btw lol) (also is here for reference:http://nswiki.org/index.php?title=Eaischpnaeieacgkque_Bhcieaghpodsttditf). Now, that could be one of about a dozen notable languages but does also narrow down the list.

Not that that's his own country, since he claimed in multiple occasions to be American, and I don't have a reason to doubt that.

Also, man do I wish I had bought Post-Master General back in like 2015 when I asked him about it. Would have saved me a bit of time- and gotten a more concrete answer.

I have really been enjoying this back-and-forth on the RMB on the origins of this name, and I admit I myself got tangled up in it a bit, using anagram solvers and decoders to try to decipher it any which way... nothing meaningful ever came up. Then I also dug into this user's posts like Chan Island did and noticed that they have again claimed in an IC context that the capitol building was named... a very long word - which is actually the full time of titin.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:List_of_protologisms/Long_words/Titin

I honestly don't think they really work for an IRL company with a name related to their nation name; if anything, they were probably referring to an IC construct.