Dunno if there's a thread about this already or not, but ANYWAYS!
What are some of your biggest fears? What creeps you out? Got any phobias??
And no one's allowed to kill this thread by giving some smart reply like "I fear Allah" ...:anger: *got my eyes on you* ..we all should fear Allah inshallah so, other than that, what are some of your fears?
Peace be to any prophets I may have mentioned above. Praised and exalted be my Maker, if I have mentioned Him. (Come to think of it praise Him anyway.)
"Allah! La ilaha illa Huwa (none has the right to be worshipped but He), Al-Hayyul-Qayyum (the Ever Living, the One Who sustains and protects all that exists).".."[Al Qur'aan 3:2]
Are you scared of death? Just asking out of curiosity.
I'm more frightened of pain than I am of death. To me, the state of being dead is no more scary than the state I was in before I was born.
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Here's another one for you:
Hellenologophobia: the chronic fear of Greek words or of technical/scientific terminology.
What sadists name these things?
Although the example I gave is accepted as a real word, it's clear that whoever coined it was having a bit of a laugh; with yours the word has clear Greek roots:
Ἑλληνικός (hellenikos) = Greek
λόγος (logos) = word
φοβία (phobia) = fear
Both of our examples are likely to cause suffering in people with those phobias, though...
Seeing as 'chronic' is from another Greek root, χρόνιος (chronios), meaning 'long-term', we could even have this word:
Chronohellenologophobia
which literally means 'the chronic fear of Greek words'. Isn't language fun?
Although the example I gave is accepted as a real word, it's clear that whoever coined it was having a bit of a laugh; with yours the word has clear Greek roots...
That is entirely possible but roots can be misleading. It’s hard to believe how silly and unrelated the roots of some legitimate words are. Considering how many different ways a word can come into existence, there’s really no telling.
Isn't language fun?
Extremely. For instance, “prefix” has no suffix but “suffix” has a prefix.
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so, other than that, what are some of your fears?
Here's a phobia I always mention when this topic comes up. I don't suffer from it, but I just think it's an entertaining word:
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