Post by RH DraneyPost by DingbatThe word for phobia of long words is a long word ...
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
... makes it tough for those with the phobia to describe their condition.
Ludicrous...breaking down the contrived word into its constituent parts
yields "horse-river-monster-one-and-a-half-foot-fear"...it not only uses
unnecessary figures of speech to convey bigness, but makes no reference
at all to words....r
Do you think maybe it is a reverse translation of the Mandarin word for
phobia of long words? Chinese characters have been known to be combined
in some odd ways to /sound/ like western words.
Once in London's Chinatown I paid a pavement artist to write my name in
Chinese characters on a long sheet of paper with a brush-and-pen. He
asked me to spell my name in Latin characters and he combined several
Chinese characters which together sounded like my name (so I was told).
The component characters were a rare and surreal combination of words
which escape me now.