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Game of combined combined compound words

Game of combined combined compound words
In languages like German and Finnish it is typical to use combined compound words, and in German they can become even ridiculously long, like in case of German 'Cattle marking and beef labeling supervision duties delegation law' of 1999. I saved you from horizontal scrolling, and did not past that German word here ;-)

In English there are only rather limited number of such combined compounds, where words become written together, with no space or hyphen in the middle. Here is an unofficial complete list of those.

One fun wordplay is to combine such combined compounds, and form sort of "non-words", like "lifetimetable". In languages like Finnish, it even can be turned into a game, where each player has to try continue the combined compound from one end, and form an endless compound word. The person who can not come up with any good continuation, will then drop out from the game.

Or then more playful game could be to form these long ridiculous and funny compounds, and try to illustrate them. The challenge then would be to come up with the funniest one.

And what you see here in the example image is a modest attempt to illustrate one. You will find help from the notes on the image, to find out what I was after. But try not to cheat ;-)

Or just click here!

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 Sami Serola (inactive)
Sami Serola (inactiv… club has replied
Me! =) But how do we share the alphabets(?) =P At least I couldn't find any multi player online Scrabble games, and especially not in Finnish! =D
8 years ago.
 Annemarie
Annemarie club
great to be back to your beautiful photos:)
8 years ago.
 .t.a.o.n.
.t.a.o.n.
visit sami....
8 years ago.
 polytropos
polytropos club
Love that! :)
5 years ago.
 Sami Serola (inactive)
Sami Serola (inactiv… club has replied
This was fun to do, and that time I didn't know the option to use private images and unique URLs to hide them. So, on this I hid the answer onto photo where the upload date was changed to some long gone date. And then made commenting on that image forbidden to keep it hidden.
5 years ago.

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