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02 Jul 2018, 6:32 pm

This is the fear of long words.

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02 Jul 2018, 6:56 pm

Well, they well never tell you :roll:

Thought it had something to do with hippo's

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02 Jul 2018, 7:39 pm

sesquipeliophobia is the fear of long words.

You just needlessly and erroneously tacked the word "hippopotamus " on to the front of it.

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02 Jul 2018, 8:05 pm

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hippopot ... aliophobia

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02 Jul 2018, 8:14 pm

:heart: :mrgreen:

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02 Jul 2018, 9:17 pm

Hippophobia is really the fear of horses, but I think psychologists prefer to call it equinophobia, possibly to avoid confusion.

Or they think too many patients are morons won't they won't know hippopotamus is Greek for "river horse", I guess.

Anyway, I read that hippopotomonstroswhatevertheheckitscalledophobia, isn't a real phobia. It was made up, but people tend to believe anything that's on the internet, so...

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02 Jul 2018, 9:25 pm

LoneLoyalWolf wrote:

Who could be afraid of something that adorable.

Seriously though, if this were a real thing, it seems particularly cruel to make the name of the condition a trigger for those that have it :roll:

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02 Jul 2018, 9:34 pm

LoneLoyalWolf wrote:

Awww....

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02 Jul 2018, 9:39 pm

The ancient Greeks mustve discovered America. Why else would local Indians have named the river "Potomac" (suspiciously similar to the Greek word for "river" which is "Potomo"?

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03 Jul 2018, 7:19 am

I saw the thread title and immediately thought "the fear of river horses using long words"...?

In the same vein: why is "dyslexia" difficult to spell, given what it describes?

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03 Jul 2018, 7:37 am

Why is abbreviation such a long word :?:

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03 Jul 2018, 7:40 am

LoneLoyalWolf wrote:

Is that Darmok's latest selfie?

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03 Jul 2018, 8:14 am

naturalplastic wrote:

LoneLoyalWolf wrote:

Awww....

Actually more folks in Africa are killed by hippos than by any other animal (more than by lions, crocs, hyenas, cape buffalo, pythons, or by poisonous snakes). Not because hippos eat people but because... I dunno….folks in canoes on rivers accidently get between them and their babies I suppose.

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03 Jul 2018, 11:59 am

I thought it had something to do with hippos :oops:

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The ancient Greeks mustve discovered America. Why else would local Indians have named the river "Potomac" (suspiciously similar to the Greek word for "river" which is "Potomo"?

Maybe the Indians discovered ancient Greece! :mrgreen:

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03 Jul 2018, 12:18 pm

Skilpadde wrote:

I thought it had something to do with hippos :oops:

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The ancient Greeks mustve discovered America. Why else would local Indians have named the river "Potomac" (suspiciously similar to the Greek word for "river" which is "Potomo"?

Maybe the Indians discovered ancient Greece! :mrgreen:

Might be.

That might also explain why the ancient Roman philosopher "Seneca" was named after an Indian tribe in New York state!

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03 Jul 2018, 8:56 pm

Someone had to post this :arrow:

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