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Crowded House: A New Performance of "Don't Dream It's Over" on the Late Show

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))8/24/2021 4:58:20 am PDT

re: #225 Nojay UK

A friend who lives in Japan is always looking out for the longest “wall of kanji” he can find — Japanese Jouhou kanji characters with no intervening hiragana. It’s usually the name of a local government bureau (prefectural and city names are always good for three or even four characters to start with) or a new regulation of some sort. IIRC I think his record was 14 kanji in a row but it’s been a while since he announced a new discovery.

I go more for consonant density in German rather than word length, my most recent favorite is the word for mandatory vaccination: Impfpflicht, or a swarm of fishes: Fischschwarm, for flop sweat Angstschweiss; and having to shower before getting in the pool: Duschpflicht.
And the word for a fat droplet, probably my favorite: Fetttröpfchen