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hippopotomomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 6:45 pm
by Brazilian dude
This is for Verus and his big car.

Brazilian dude

Re: hippopotomomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 12:50 am
by frank
This is for Verus and his big car.
Brazilian dude
:-) Yeah.
Reminded me of the Grandiloquent Dictionary. Probably you all know that on line dictionary (?) If not, i'm sure you're going to love it :-).

F

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:31 am
by Brazilian dude
Thank you, Frank. It's in my favorites now.

Brazilian dude

Re: hippopotomomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 11:55 pm
by Stargzer
. . .

:-) Yeah.
Reminded me of the Grandiloquent Dictionary. Probably you all know that on line dictionary (?) If not, i'm sure you're going to love it :-).

F
Oooh! Cool!
algology -( )
The study of seaweed or marine algae
And here I would have thought it was the study of the ALGOL, the ALGOrythmic Languague, or perhaps the Demon Star, Beta Persei). Alas, it is not a JOVIAL topic . . . :)

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 3:30 pm
by M. Henri Day
The problem I have with the suggested GWotD is not so much its length, but the double «p». Incomprehensible and unjustified !...

Henri

Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 9:01 pm
by tcward
The problem I have with the suggested GWotD is not so much its length, but the double «p».
I presume you are referring to the double 'p' in -sesquippedalio-, in which case I agree, although I do not feel that it necessarily increases the incomprehensibility of it all...

-Tim

Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 10:09 am
by M. Henri Day
...

I presume you are referring to the double 'p' in -sesquippedalio-, in which case I agree, although I do not feel that it necessarily increases the incomprehensibility of it all...
Alas, Tim, in my case the trees always obscure the forest....

Henri