Berlin: a certain style

[imomus]

Edit: Two of these photos were taken in Neukolln, the subject of my new Wired piece, Going Tribal in Berlin's "Neubeca".

Comments

[cityramica.livejournal.com]

do you know what the longest word in German is?

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!

Oh wait--that's Austrian. Nevermind.

[birdflew.livejournal.com]

I do, but strangely enough I haven't managed to once slip it into conversation. Shame really.

[cityramica.livejournal.com]

mind slipping it into this 'conversation'? :)
i'm curious.

[ataxi.livejournal.com]

I wanted to go for a ride on the Danube, but I couldn't cut a deal with the Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft.

[birdflew.livejournal.com]

Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft. But you won't hear that one unless you frequent the docks, so another good one to know is Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz, which believe it or not is actually a short form! Heizölrückstoßabdämpfung is apparently the longest German word that has no repeating letters. Those came up while googling the spelling of the first. German words are great for winning spelling bees.

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

I think the longest word in existence is a place name in Welsh.

[thetemplekeeper.livejournal.com]

Do you mean "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch"?

It is indeed a wonderful station name (and I may even remember how to pronounce it), though unfortunately, even when stretched out, it's dwarfed by the Maori hill-name "Taumatawhakatang­ihangakoauauot­amateaturipukaka­pikimaunga­horonuku­pokaiwhenuak­itanatahu " (think they were just showing off).

Here's a nice picture of the station sign in Wales, though: Hope it's not too big for ClickOpera - I haven't cropped it at all...

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

The very one!