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From: com... Mr. John T Jensen
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1992 21:11

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lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph) writes:

>Charli...@mindlink.bc.ca (Charlie Gibbs) writes:

>Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitaen. This is the standard
>"longest word ever used" in German. I don't believe it was really
>used, but who knows? It's old, and it's from Austria...

>You want to know what it *means*? "Captain at the Danube Steam
>Boat Corporation".
>-- 
Should that be 'Captain at the Danube Steam Boat Transportation Corporation'?
                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Doesn't -fahrts- mean 'travel' or 'transportation' or something like that?

jj

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