On Fri, 12 May 2000 14:59:33 -0400, Serge LAROCQUE wrote:
>What is the word meaning anyway?

Donau		- Danube
Dampf		- steam
Schiff		- ship
Fahrt		- passage
Gesellschaft	- company


Schirm		- visor
Farbe		- color
Verordnung	- regulation

The Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaft (DDSG for short) really exists.
Building even longer words from that is a favorite sport among Autrian
school children (or at least it was when I was 10 or so). 
Austrian bureaucrats are of course even more successful at building long
words. A few months ago I read about some regulation with a similar
length as my "DDSG captain's visor color regulation". Unfortunately I
can't remember what it was about.

	hp


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