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==Goddard & War of the Worlds==
I looked over the NASA article on [[Robert H. Goddard]] and didn't see any references to [[H. G. Wells]] or ''[[The War of the Worlds]]''. Is there a better reference? Thanks. --[[User:Junius49|Junius49]] ([[User talk:Junius49|talk]]) 01:22, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
== Concerning my edit of the page Longest words on February 24th and your re-edit later that day. ==
I don't know where you think you have your understanding of the Icelandic language from, as you site Láttuþaðfaraíþúsunddögumfyrirnóttina being the longest word in Icelandic as a 'fact', but I have to inform you that you are very mistaken.
I don't come across factual errors on Wikipedia often and therefore, I edit pages very rarely. As this being one of the few cases, I am very disappointed to come across my correction being de-corrected the same day I post it.
In the Icelandic language you can only combine nouns into merged words, and that with very strict rules. If you have any knowledge of grammar you would recognize two adverbs, one conjunction and one verb in the given line. The only admissible word that could be made out of those would be 'þúsunddaganótt' (e. a thousand-day night) and last time I checked 14 letters are way less than 29. So, if you could please let my correction be this time I would be the most satisfied.
Regards
DGL
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