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My bet would be on a European one, potentially German, where it would be 35 letters that look exactly like a cat barfed on the keyboard

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Weltschmerz

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Kaltdunkeltrauerverzweifelungsvollraum. However, even Germans would not combine all this and say something like ein kalter, dunkler Raum voll Trauer und Verzweiflung.

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Fight me: Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

Yes this is one word and it makes sense.

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14 points

“Beef labeling monitoring task transfer act”

Excuse me??

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I did not ask you to translate it! Now you openended Pandoras Büchse

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Using compound words is just cheating.

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If it’s just a compound noun it’s no fun, because it’s just a literal translation of those same words except there’s no spaces between the individual words in German

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