Zenzizenzizenzic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenzizenzizenzic

by gyosifov • 1 month ago

121 34 1 month ago

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not_a_bot_4sho• 1 month ago

Waiting for an AI startup to create a phononym of this, in the same vein as Google did...

dkarl• 1 month ago

I assume it's already trademarked as a pharmaceutical name.

Waterluvian• 1 month ago

Kind of! It’s the official patented name for the formulation of the original Powerade. Back then it was known as PowerEight. The recipe hasn’t changed.

They take the finest electrolytes from whatever side of the salt flats we’re on, distil them twice, then thrice, then once again thrice more. They then rehydrate it, thus infusing it with the pure essence of hydration. They add red dye (for the flavour) and memories of cherry (for the colour) and bottle it. The bottles are then dozenized and loaded onto trucks to be immediately re-homed.

Learned about all this on late night deep delve Discovery Channel soirée… or maybe it was a fever dream (which has a fascinating origin story as well, but that’s for another time.)

graypegg2• 1 month ago

…it survives as a linguistic oddity: zenzizenzizenzic has more Zs than any other word in the OED.

I am an absolutely garbage scrabble player, but I will be keeping this gem in my back pocket… probably a rare case to play it though haha

Sparkle-san• 1 month ago

Scrabble only comes with one Z, so some of those are gonna have be sideways N's.

gjm11• 1 month ago

Also, a Scrabble board is 15 squares across and ZENZIZENZIZENZIC is 16 letters, so even with a Scrabble set with extra Zs or blanks you couldn't ever play it.

conradludgate• 1 month ago

With one Z tile and 2 blanks...

darth_aardvark• 1 month ago

In addition to the Z's everyone else pointed out, Scrabble boards are 15 tiles across. This is 16 letters. You fool. You utter gumdrop.

graypegg2• 1 month ago

Ah! Wrong on the internet! Oh no!

binary132• 1 month ago

This is exactly what first came to my mind as well. Pretty funny scenario to imagine

lbo462• 1 month ago

That is actually pretty cool

AStrangeMorrow2• 1 month ago

Someone watched “The rest is Science” I imagine!

marcusb• 1 month ago

Or tried that vocabulary estimator that is currently on the front page (it gave me zenzizenizenic in the last section.)

AStrangeMorrow2• 1 month ago

Yes possible. But really that video of them features the word prominently (even on the thumbnail) AND that vocabulary estimation website. The video/podcast is just slightly over a week old.

Anyway doesn’t really matter, it was more to see if anyone else was a listener of that podcast.

epihelix2• 1 month ago

Listened to, I assume you mean?

(Also, is it just me, or is anyone else mildly annoyed that the cleverly-titled "The rest is history" spawned a heap of meaningless "The rest is ..." siblings. Talk about letting the side down. I'm just waiting for Goal Hanger to recruit a pair of meditation gurus into their podcast stable, to make the "The rest is resting" ...)

marceldegraaf• 1 month ago

Ah, I see someone has listened to "The Rest is Science" recently. Great podcast with Michael Stevens (VSauce) and Hannah Fry (the mathematician)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t-5lQ2mzuw

flyingcircus3• 1 month ago

Actually, its just one of the 170k English words we all totally already knew this morning.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48598586

nkrisc• 1 month ago

Which was also heavily featured on the podcast mentioned.

sublinear• 1 month ago

dating from a time when powers were written out in words rather than as superscript numbers ... he wrote that it "doeth represent the square of squares squaredly".

This is a great example of why bad naming conventions are a "smell". It strongly implies that the solution does not yet fully understand the problem it's trying to solve.

momoraul• 1 month ago

Just "zenzi" stacked three times. They really committed to the bit.

hun3• 1 month ago

(zenzi)³

I mean zenzi-cubic

aldanor• 1 month ago

Or cubizenzic?

culi• 1 month ago

Funny that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenzizenzic

redirects to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power

I supposed the 16th power would then be Zenzizenzizenzizenzic and so forth.

Jblx2• 1 month ago

I always wondered what the Spice Girls were singing about in that song.

gre• 1 month ago

hemidemisemiquaver vibes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixty-fourth_note

epihelix2• 1 month ago

Well no, by the same logic it would be quaverquaverquaverquavic.

A hemidemisemiquaver, while a little scary for the performer, at least makes immediate perfect sense. Unlike that stupid "sixty-fourth note" rubbish. Music is art, not fractions!

dhosek• 1 month ago

Fractions are art and man, music relies so much on fractions.

jzer0cool• 1 month ago

Unbelievable. Are you actually Stephen Fry is disguise?

farmerbb• 1 month ago

I understood that reference.

piekvorst• 1 month ago

Not just a Futurama reference

tosh• 1 month ago

nb: Robert Recorde also came up with the equals sign as two horizontal parallel lines "=". Yes, that one.

"bicause noe 2, thynges, can be moare equalle"

(and helped make + and - signs more popular)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Recorde

see page 5:

https://sigapl.org/Articles/Language%20as%20an%20intellectua...

obligatory mention of Notation as a Tool of Thought

1979 Turing Award lecture by Ken Iverson

https://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.p...

gste• 1 month ago

Someone should make a language where every math formula is a word.

Then give it to an LLM and let it go nuts

JumpCrisscross• 1 month ago

This isn’t far off from Gödel’s work.

Zenzizenzizenzic

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