NIIOMTPLABOPARMBETZHELBETRABSBOMONIMONKONOTDTEKHSTROMONT

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...is the world's longest acronym, according to the guinness book of words.

NIIOMTPLABOPARMBETZHELBETRABSBOMONIMONKONOTDTEKHSTROMONT (56 letters, 54 in Cyrillic). Found in the Concise Dictionary of Soviet Terminology, it means: The laboratory for shuttering, reinforcement, concrete and ferroconcrete operations for composite-monolithic and monolithic constructions of the Department of the Technology of Building-assembly operations of the Scientific Research Institute of the Organization for building mechanization and technical aid of the Academy of Building and Architecture of the USSR [Stuart Kidd].

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― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 3 December 2004 04:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you c and p it or type it out?!

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 3 December 2004 04:58 (twenty-one years ago)

But is it art?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 December 2004 04:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I am smarter than I was ten seconds ago.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:00 (twenty-one years ago)

~~Can we eat it?~~

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I love Communists that they even have a need to create that acronym.

― Allyzay Needs Legs More (allyzay), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I just said it five times fast. It still took twelve minutes though.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:00 (twenty-one years ago)

get one hobby

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:02 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.kent.net/DisplacedDynasties/cover1a.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Ny-Om-tip-la-bop-arm-bet-za-hel-be-trabs-bo-mon-i-mon-ko-not-da-tek-his-tro-mont

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:02 (twenty-one years ago)

That means I Love You!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:03 (twenty-one years ago)

MONIMONKONOT

This is my favorite part.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:03 (twenty-one years ago)

DAN STOP BEING SO SOCIALIST REALIST

― Allyzay Needs Legs More (allyzay), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Ny-Om-tip-la-bop-arm-bet-za-hel-be-trabs-bo-mon-i-mon-ko-not-da-tek-his-tro-mont

amen. next year in jerusalem!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:05 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.sokr.ru/

― Allyzay Needs Legs More (allyzay), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I was trying to think of some long English acronyms, and the longest I could think of were ROFLMAO and WYSIWYG (7 letters). Though I guess OMGLOLWTF is technically 9 letters, if that counts.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:09 (twenty-one years ago)

It's because we don't have these...things that the Communists had...these great super-specialized institutions that only did one thing and required a really lengthy explanation for its existance. It's kind of like how the Germans actually require words like "Vergangenheitsbewältigung" in their language, you know? We are just not that kind of people. Sadly, sadly.

― Allyzay Needs Legs More (allyzay), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:10 (twenty-one years ago)

It's true- Americans don't have the attention span for acronyms that long. After the first ten letters they'd be reaching for the remote, you know?

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:17 (twenty-one years ago)

That's why you lost. And it almost says 'Stormont' at the end.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:20 (twenty-one years ago)

whats that welsh town with a name thats like 60 letters long?

― It's hard to kill a horse with a flute (AaronHz), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Though I like how the internet and instant messaging have made acronyms fashionable. Perhaps it is the Soviet Union's revenge.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:24 (twenty-one years ago)

tetris?

― Remy Snush The Night Away (x Jeremy), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (translates as "The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio's of the red cave")

― It's hard to kill a horse with a flute (AaronHz), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Perhaps all names should be numbers.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Like 5 in Peanuts? Or not personal names?

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:42 (twenty-one years ago)

You are number 6.

― Number 2 (Leee), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned seems like an 8 to me.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:45 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a start.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, out of 10 you'd be a...different number. (j/k 10, of course) You're an 8 because you're good luck to Chinese people.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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