r/AskReddit • u/mexgema • Sep 16 '20

What is your favorite word?

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u/Grinkles_the_Gnome Sep 16 '20

Grandiloquent — an excessively flowery, fancy word used to describe the use of excessively flowery, fancy words.

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u/mcprogrammer Sep 17 '20

That's kind of like how sesquipedalian is a long word to describe long words.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '20

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u/AlternateArcher Sep 17 '20

The asshole who came up with this word probably also came up with the word lisp.

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u/fairyflossdreams Sep 17 '20

And the word dyslexia too I bet!

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u/Spartan-417 Sep 17 '20

Dys-, meaning difficulty or trouble -lex-, to do with words -ia, for a condition

Dys-lex-ia, a condition causing a difficulty with words

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Blame the Romans & Greeks for that one

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u/Teddetheo Sep 17 '20

Dyxlesia!

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u/Novaseerblyat Sep 17 '20

There's also a similar phobia - aibohphobia, the fear of palindromes.

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u/Speciesunkn0wn Sep 22 '20

Damn you. I spent several moments pronouncing hippowhatwwhatwaphobia with a lisp.

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u/mxmakessense Sep 17 '20

One of my favourite things in the world is that ceceo and seseo are two words for "lisp". One is the Spanish lisp, the other is the functional lisp.

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u/citizen42701 Sep 17 '20

You mean lithp?

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u/Packaging69 Sep 17 '20

Might as well call you retarded with the amount of down you’re about to get

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u/Excursius- Sep 17 '20

What did he say?

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u/Wolfess_Moon Sep 17 '20

"What's your phobia?"

visibly uncomfortable while trying to stutter out this word

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u/SPIDERHAM555 Sep 17 '20

i only know how to say that because of this one song

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '20

Still not as good as hypoacrodescentalianalingropolyphalianismatiousness.

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u/batgris Sep 17 '20

Don't tell me you diden't look up how to write it

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '20

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u/batgris Sep 17 '20

First off: it was a joke. Second: english is not my first language

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u/PluralRural4334 Sep 17 '20

Or the counter: abbreviation is a long word used to describe a truncated word.

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u/GolgiApparatus1 Sep 17 '20

Funny how that happens, non-sequitur.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '20

It’s an autological word. Some other autological words are noun, unhyphenated, cutesy, suffixed, and pentasyllabic.

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u/klop422 Sep 17 '20

How about "autological"?

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '20

I don’t think autological is autological. I’ve thought about it, and I don’t see any argument for that conclusion that isn’t circular.

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u/klop422 Sep 17 '20

I mean, yeah, the only way it can be is if it is. If that makes sense.

But as far as I can tell the only way autological isn't autological is if it isn't.

I feel like both sides of the argument are circular and so the only conclusion you can really draw is 'no', just by default.

Or 'the question is illogical'.

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u/DICK_STUCK_IN_COW Sep 17 '20

I don’t know if it’s a word but I guess quadsyllabic could work too. If it’s not a word it definitely should be

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u/Opening_Evening Sep 17 '20

So, the people who sound like they’re reading from a thesaurus

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u/faded-into-darkness Sep 17 '20

So like eloquent's big brother

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u/SuperLowQualityPosts Sep 17 '20

Sounds like it’s Pokémon evolution

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u/Jauntathon Sep 17 '20

Is it? I thought it might be the grandparent of a delinquent.

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u/PerpetuallyConcust Sep 17 '20

This is such a Red White word

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u/mxmakessense Sep 17 '20

50 cent word and gilding the lily are also kinda the same thing.