Archive for November 22nd, 2005

  

This is apparently the longest word with a definition…

“ACETYLSERYLTYROSYLSERYLISOL
EUCYLTHREONYLSERYLPROLYLSE
RYLGLUTAMINYLPHENYLALANYL
VALYLPHENYLALANYLLEUCYLSER
YLSERYLVALYLTRYPTOPHYLALAN
YLASPARTYLPROLYLISOLEUCYLG
LUTAMYLLEUCYLLEUCYLASPARA
GINYLVALYLCYSTEINYLTHREONY
LSERYLSERYLLEUCYLGLYCYLASP
ARAGINYLGLUTAMINYLPHENYLAL
ANYLGLUTAMINYLTHREONYLGLU
TAMINYLGLUTAMINYLALANYLAR
GINYLTHREONYLTHREONYLGLUT
AMINYLVALYLGLUTAMINYLGLUT
AMINYLPHENYLALANYLSERYLGL
UTAMINYLVALYLTRYPTOPHYLLYS
YLPROLYLPHENYLALANYLPROLYL
GLUTAMINYLSERYLTHREONYLVA
LYLARGINYLPHENYLALANYLPROL
YLGLYCYLASPARTYLVALYLTYROS
YLLYSYLVALYLTYROSYLARGINYL
TYROSYLASPARAGINYLALANYLVA
LYLLEUCYLASPARTYLPROLYLLEU
CYLISOLEUCYLTHREONYLALANYL
LEUCYLLEUCYLGLYCYLTHREONY
LPHENYLALANYLASPARTYLTHREO
NYLARGINYLASPARAGINYLARGIN
YLISOLEUCYLISOLEUCYLGLUTAM
YLVALYLGLUTAMYLASPARAGINY
LGLUTAMINYLGLUTAMINYLSERYL
PROLYLTHREONYLTHREONYLALA
NYLGLUTAMYLTHREONYLLEUCYL
ASPARTYLALANYLTHREONYLARGI
NYLARGINYLVALYLASPARTYLASP
ARTYLALANYLTHREONYLVALYLA
LANYLISOLEUCYLARGINYLSERYL
ALANYLASPARAGINYLISOLEUCYL
ASPARAGINYLLEUCYLVALYASPAR
AGINYLGLUTAMYLLEUCYLVALYL
ARGINYLGLYCYLTHREONYLGLYC
YLLEUCYLTYR”

But what does it mean>?

This is where I found out — – > VIRUS

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Just a quick observation as I take in a little daytime telly television for the first time in an age….is it just me or is Advertising Media doing its upmost to dumb down our mother tongue???

I watched two adverts today containing the words (are they real words?) - Cakiness, and Stretchified… not to mention the number of other apparently made up words in advertising there are out there….is advertising seeking to blind us not with science but with language instead, in the hope that we will buy simply because we DON’T understand.

It would appear so.

Does anyone else out there agree with me in the thought that a lot of media these days has lost its integrity and certainly relies more on OUR ignorance than on simple fact?

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