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World's Longest Word Has 189,819 Letters, Takes 3.5 Hours To Pronounce (Now With Video Pronunciation!)

November 20, 2012 in do NOT ever bring it up on conversation, get out of here with that, have a contest with your friends to see who can listen the longest before bashing their head on their desk and begging to die!, i've heard it all now, protein, science, thank god it has a nickname, that was more L's and Y's than I've ever pronounced in my life, that's crazy!, that's too long, viral, why?, wow, wtf did i just watch?, you've got to be kidding me, your parents must have for real hated you with a passion previously unknown to any parent

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Note: You can download a 65KB text file of the entire 189,819 letter word HERE.

This is a video of some guy pronouncing the longest word in the world, which is the chemical name for titan (aka connectin), a human protein, and the largest known protein. It takes brobro 3-hours and 33 minutes to pronounce the whole thing, and it looks like he nods off several times in the process. Plus that potted plant on his desk dies. Truthfully, he might have just been mumbling the whole time, because that's what it sounds like. That, or speaking in tongues. Or casting a sleep spell. Whatever the case, I can't recommend watching the whole thing unless you really want to know if it's possible to die of boredom.

Hit the jump for the video if you're tired of watching paint dry and ready for some REAL excitement in your life.

Thanks to bb, who's name could literally only be one letter shorter before it was just a blank space.

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  • swampwiz

    As this guy is Russian (or at least something Slavic), his delivery reminds of an Orthodox metropolitan at a service.

  • John

    His beard grows lol

  • jamaur robinson

    i cant sit hear and listen to this for 3 hrs this is so FUCKING LONG

  • Morgan South

    Can't say 3 times fast

  • poop

    FUCK!!

  • DeksamTorrac

    IF this is a word... it is all pointless BS, because NO one in the world will ever ever ever ever use it in its entirety other then to make a very boring youtube video! Just like as if anyone would use the full number of pie IF we had to use the full number to make it work. I know for a fact this so called word will also have the record for being the least used word the world has ever known. Thus making it a bunch of nonsense! I'm out.

  • The link to the pdf version is a virus..my virus program caught it in time though. good times.

  • agatha

    It doesn't sound english, more russian or somthing, and I think it's complete bollock's to ivent a name that's that long :/ LAME

  • Pablo

    chuck norris can pronounce it 48 times a day.

  • The word "party" is in there like a lot. Cool.

  • Robin Manford

    *Titin.

  • Gummi_B3ar

    I finally figured out what it is! Its a time spell that speeds up the flow of time as the reader reads it unaware that time has speed up because he is the one casting. His beard grew, the plant dies and the clock changes time several times. we just watched a week of this guys life pass before his eyes O_O

  • Neon Frank

    Try saying three times quickly...can't be done

  • This is the Tolstoi of chemistry

  • Aalok

    What a stupid idea. They could've easily named it something you could pronounce in under 5 seconds. Who the fuck would ever actually take the time to say the whole "word?" You'd never get anything done. The guy who named it must be one of the biggest trolls in the universe.

  • they did name it something else. its in the article!

  • Suarga

    I refuse to believe this is English.

  • $18922249

    Psychological warfare. This guy was guilty of not paying his taxes on time. Poor Pussy Riot.

  • Bub

    Gross. Dude had dry-mouth at the start of the pronunciation. Also, if its an English word, why not use a native English speaker instead of a guy with a clear Eastern European accent?

  • afs

    This it not a human-only protein, and the longest variant of the protein is not one found in the human body.

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