Longest Word

1
Longest Word?

• Floccinaucinihilipilification
• the categorising of something as worthless or
  trivial OED
• Floccinaucinihilipilificational
• Pertaining to the categorising of something as
  worthless or trivial
• Floccinaucinihilipilificationalise
• To cause something to pertain to the categorising
  of something as worthless or trivial
• Floccinaucinihilipilificationalisation
• The act of causing something to pertain to the
  categorising of something as worthless or trivial
  
• See page 131 of the Language Instinct Steven
  Pinker

2
Longest Word?

• Floccinaucinihilipilificationalisational
• Pertaining to the act of causing something to
  pertain to the categorising of something as
  worthless or trivial
• Floccinaucinihilipilificationalisationalise
• To cause something to Pertain to the act of
  causing something to pertain to the categorising
  of something as worthless or trivial

3
Longest Word?

• Floccinaucinihilipilification 30
• Floccinaucinihilipilificational 32
• Floccinaucinihilipilificationalise 35
• Floccinaucinihilipilificationalisation 39
• Floccinaucinihilipilificationalisational 41
• Floccinaucinihilipilificationalisationalise 44

4
Longest Word?

• Demon
• Demonise
• Demonisation
• Demonisational
• Demonisationalise
• Demonisationalisation
• Demonisationalisational

5
Longest Word?

• Nation
• National
• Nationalise
• Nationalisation
• Nationalisational
• Nationalisationalise
• Nationalisationalisation
• Nationalisationalisational
• Nationalisationalisationalise
• Nationalisationalisationalisation

6
Self reference

• Would you ever get a grip on yourself.
• Just take a good look at yourself.
• Would you just listen to yourself.
• A parent is a parent or a parent of a parent
• It is possible to teach to teach?
• It is possible to teach to teach to teach to
  teach?
• Understanding Understanding
• Analysis analysis
• Understanding understanding understanding
• Analysis analysis analysis

7
Everydayness

• Everyday activities must usually be done
  relatively quickly, often simultaneously with
  other activities. Neither time nor mental
  resources may be availableAs a result, everyday
  activities structure themselves so as to minimize
  conscious mental activityThese characteristics
  restrict everyday tasks to those that are shallow
  (having no need for looking ahead or backing up)
  and those that are narrow (having few choices at
  any point, and therefore requiring little
  planning)the mental effort for doing the task is
  minimized.
• Norman The Design of Everyday Things

8
Recursion

• Affords
• Delay
• Computational history
• Solve a problem by fragmenting it into a series
  of simpler/smaller instances of the same problem
• Often called the divide and conquer strategy
• Each sub-problem makes a contribution to the
  overall solution