Sunday, November 16, 2008

Long names

So in my previous post I mentioned "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", a film by Stanley Kubrick was probably my favourite movie title of all time.

I find the context of the title really amusing. How can one not love a title like that? So funny in such an intriguing way. Plus, I love the way the movie title rolls off one's tongue. This is the epitome of a successful movie title, because it actually makes me want to watch it.

Then I found out this is not the longest movie title. That honour would have to be conferred to:
"Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead Part 2: In Shocking 2-D"

Wow. In shocking 2D!!!!!! Omigosh.

And just to prove to you that's its a real movie click

Now this title just does not make any sense at all. However, there's something I find laughable at names or titles with an extremely long name. You'd have to wonder whatever that person was on to come up with names like this. Was he trying to be funny? Was he trying to convey his main point through the title. Was he perhaps trying to summarise something?! When a name becomes too long, its like all reasons are completely thrown out the window. It becomes silly and absurd. It stops making sense, and it becomes almost random. And than you laugh, but than forget it. Because, seriously, who would actually remember that "in shocking 2-D!" movie title?

With that said, here are some other long names I've came across.

Longest English word:
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
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Longest place name:
Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit
This, place, surprise surprise, is actually Bangkok
click Scroll down to read the part on "Full Name".

Longest game title (At least, I haven't seen anything longer than this):
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner - Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army
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But then I did a search and I was wrong. Trust the Japanese to come up with a game that has a title like this:
White Princess the second ~ Yappari Itto ni Ittemo Soujyanakutemo OK-na Gotsugou Shugi Gakuen Renai Adventure
or
White Princess the second ~ Love Adventure in the School That Follows the Principle of Convenience, Where It's Okay to Stray From the Path or Stay on the Path
click

Then throughout my searches, I came across this:
http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/
click
which probably has the longest URL address, and it has a list of things which are long.

*Slaps forehead*

Okay. I am done with long names.
Give me my abbreviations.

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