Via Christie’s tweet: check out this scientific/linguistic absurdity–a muscle-contraction protein known as titin (”not to be confused with Tintin,” sez Wikipedia. Duly noted!), whose technical name is 189,819 letters long.
A picture says a thousand words, so here it is…
…but if you want to behold it in all its googol-syllabic glory, click here. (I tried to repost it after the jump, but Wordpress choked on it.) I’d love to hear a back-of-the-envelope estimate of how long it’d take to actually pronounce…anyone feel like doing the math?
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Where do I put the emphasis?
You know what they say in grade school: sound it out!
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