isnt a wierd thing that Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is fear of long words?
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That's the correct spelling and term.\nhttp://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=+Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia&db=*\n\nAnd yeah, its pretty ironic.\nhttp://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=irony&db=*
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What scares you about it? It isn't normal but you're not weird either!\nThere are phobias for everything else so why not!? There's probably a scientific name for this one too!
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why is long such a short word ?
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Wait a minute. Who said people with phobias had an inferior mental state? The only person I know that's said that is you. Some people may have seemingly irrational fears but a lot of them make sense ie; fear of heights, fear of snakes etc. It doesn't mean you're mentally inferior. I'll admit the word 'homophobic' has always confused me a bit too but I very much doubt it was someone who was gay who first came up with the word.\n\nOh, okay. I guess that's fair enough.\n\nI've just found something. I'm not after the best answer, I just thought you'd like to know. The answer to who came up with the word is mentioned here: \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophobia\nHe's apparently heterosexual.
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That would be podophobia (although I'm not sure if the word actually exists).\nI actually knew a guy (he attended one of the courses I teach) who had fear of his own feet. Can you believe it? When we made the field trip that was part of the course (to a beautiful subtropical reservation, with lakes included) he could only go in the lake if the water was muddy enough that he could not see his feet. And he always wore socks (it was summer!!!).
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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words.\n\nPNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS (45 letters; a lung disease caused by breathing in certain particles) is the longest word in any English-language dictionary\n\nTETRAMETHYLDIAMINOBENZHYDRYLPHOSPHINOUS ACID (39 letters in the first word) appears in the OED2 in a citation for another word; this word itself is not a vocabulary entry. \n\nSUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS (34 letters) from the movie Mary Poppins is not the longest word in English, although many people believe it is. The word is in the OED, which has the following as the first four citations: \n\n1949 Parker & Young (unpublished song-title) Supercalafajalistickespialadojus.\n1951 Parker & Young (song-title) Supercalafajalistickespeealadojus; or, The super song.\n1964 R. M. & R. B; Sherman (song-title) Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!\n1967 Decisions U.S. Courts involving Copyright 1965-66 488 The complaint alleges copyright infringement of plaintiff's song `Supercalafajalistickespeealadojus' by defendants' song 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.' (All variants of this tongue twister will hereinafter be referred to collectively as 'the word'.) \n(The definition says Disney won, "in view of earlier oral uses of the word sworn to in affidavits" and because they wrote the rest of the song themselves.) \n\nFLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION (29 letters; an estimation of something as worthless) is the longest word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. The OED2 shows a use of this word in a 1741 letter by William Shenstone (1714-1763), a British poet and essayist. It has been used by Sir Walter Scott and Senators Robert Byrd and Daniel Patrick Moynihan. It was used by Senator Jesse Helms in 1999 during the debate on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty [Randolph V. Cinco]. \n\nHONORIFICABILITUDINITATIBUS (27 letters) is the longest word used by Shakespeare. It appears in Love's Labor's Lost, Act V, Scene I, and is spoken by Costard: \n\nO, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words.\nI marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word;\nfor thou art not so long by the head as\nhonorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier\nswallowed than a flap-dragon.\n\nINTERNATIONALIZATION (or INTERNATIONALISATION) has a common abbreviation among computer people based on its length: I18N or i18n, i.e. there are 18 letters omitted [Mark Brader]. \n\nCzechoslovakia-a country
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Disinterest in the elegant subtleties of written communication, I am afraid.\n\n<sigh>
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I've been robbed at gunpoint before, and - in my experience anyway - I went into an almost dream-like level of hypercontiousness.  It was like everything was moving in slow motion and I was totally aware of everything going on.  I don't remember feeling 'afraid', per se. The language fails an adequate description, thus there really is no way to answer this question unless you've been through it, and even then, it's hard to express.
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"The fear of worms is known as 'scoleciphobia'.\n\nRetrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worm"
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What about Megafearophobia!
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No, it's just annoying. I get stared at all the time, but it's not on purpose, it's because i'm like 6'7'' tall. If you check the internet, I think there's a whole page of phobias listed.
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There is no official name for it- one author writes...\n\n"And by the way, my Greek friends tell me that if I want to coin the term for the fear of the future, it could be 'mellontophobia', which, like most other phobias, is not a desirable state of mind."\n\nSuresh I.S. Rattan is at the Danish Centre for Molecular Gerontology at the University of Aarhus, Denmark\n\nhttp://www.nature.com/embor/journal/v3/n10/full/embor049.html\n\nHope that helps!
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Names of phobias are always created by combining the Greek word for the object of fear with the transitional letter "o" (or sometimes "a") and the term "phobia," from the Greek word for "fear," which is, of course, φόβος.\n\nSo, since ψαλίδι is the Greek word for "scissors," the term for "fear of scissors" would have to be "psalidiophobia," or, even better, "psalidophobia."  (The terminal iota - or letter "i" - is most often elided in creating these terms.)\n\nOf course, one could just call it "shear terror."  :)
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my gf oso like that. really scared the hell out of me. the thing is make sure u eat \n& sleep well
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Fear of fear - Phobophobia
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i had this fear myself.  i took a public speaking class from a university.  speaking in front of small groups, then building up to larger groups really helped build my confidence.  speaking about something i was truly passionate about helped as well.  i constantly had to force myself to speak at some sort of public function to overcome this fear.  now i emcee large events with ease, because i have done it over and over.   if that doesn't help him, he actually may need to seek help from a professional for possible social anxity disorder.
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I have heard of things like open palms and such. It is subconscience body language that you can look for when the other person has a hard time using words.