What's scary?

[IAmZamzam]

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:

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia.

It means 'fear of long words'. ;D

Peace

Here's another one for you:

Hellenologophobia: the chronic fear of Greek words or of technical/scientific terminology.

What sadists name these things?

 

[Ğħαrєєвαħ]

^ A sadist! :-\

wasnt that hard to figure the answer :-\

 

[czgibson]

Greetings,

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.

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?

Peace

 

[IAmZamzam]

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.