Words

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

That’s the fear of long words, if you didn’t know that yet. It’s a joke. It’s an debilitating affection. Just imagine having this phobia and getting it diagnosed.

That’s language in a nutshell.

As Soon As I Wake Up

I think about the words I want to commit to paper

Word Aversion

Turns out I’m afflicted after all.

Word Aversion is a well documented (but understudied) real thing. It’s when a certain word goes beyond mere dislike and seems to have a unpleasant physical reaction on someone when they hear or read it. Best know case is…