Comments on: Nerd Word of the Day: Anatidaephobia http://hotforwords.com/2009/08/30/nerd-word-of-the-day-anatidaephobia/ Marina Orlova - Not your typical philologist. Etymology, philology, word origins, origin of, hot teacher. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Matthew Pappas http://hotforwords.com/2009/08/30/nerd-word-of-the-day-anatidaephobia/#comment-199946 Matthew Pappas Sun, 04 Sep 2011 17:53:00 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=7432#comment-199946 eCapture BULKeMAILAddresses.net Now 300% More Effective eCapture
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]]> By: wordreet http://hotforwords.com/2009/08/30/nerd-word-of-the-day-anatidaephobia/#comment-183357 wordreet Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:04:07 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=7432#comment-183357 Yes indeedy and absolutely! :mrgreen: I have his book The History of the Farside lurking on my bookshelf even as I type. I was going to pipe up with the same information. So well done to you, and I'm way too slow. I love Gary Larson's humour, and also that of Max Cannon at redmeat.com Greets :grin: Yes indeedy and absolutely! :mrgreen:
I have his book The History of the Farside lurking on my bookshelf even as I type. I was going to pipe up with the same information. So well done to you, and I’m way too slow.
I love Gary Larson’s humour, and also that of Max Cannon at redmeat.com

Greets :grin:

]]> By: heaven here i come http://hotforwords.com/2009/08/30/nerd-word-of-the-day-anatidaephobia/#comment-154180 heaven here i come Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:31:59 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=7432#comment-154180 I'm a bit late getting to this word, but when I clicked on the link that led to the Phobia List and looked at it i noticed there wasn't a phobia beginning with the letter "q". May I suggest [quasimodophobia] might mean fear of hunchbacks? I’m a bit late getting to this word, but when I clicked on the link that led to the Phobia List and looked at it i noticed there wasn’t a phobia beginning with the letter “q”. May I suggest [quasimodophobia] might mean fear of hunchbacks?

]]> By: Venomrock67 http://hotforwords.com/2009/08/30/nerd-word-of-the-day-anatidaephobia/#comment-153812 Venomrock67 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:22:11 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=7432#comment-153812 <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEHu2qZQZOk" rel="nofollow"><b>[sciurophobia]</b> ;-) :mrgreen: [sciurophobia] ;-) :mrgreen:

]]> By: Captain Jack http://hotforwords.com/2009/08/30/nerd-word-of-the-day-anatidaephobia/#comment-153649 Captain Jack Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:47:40 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=7432#comment-153649 I would think a bad experience such as rape, would cause someone to have phallophobia. I would think a bad experience such as rape, would cause someone to have phallophobia.

]]> By: Greatest Potential http://hotforwords.com/2009/08/30/nerd-word-of-the-day-anatidaephobia/#comment-153214 Greatest Potential Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:13:51 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=7432#comment-153214 VenetianPrincess talks about her <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiMXza9jgW0&feature=fvw" rel="nofollow"> fear of flying</a> A friend of mine has that. She's been strip searched at airport security and that's made it worse for her to deal with going to the airport, let alone getting on a plane. She still travels by plane though, but she's told me last time she was planning a trip that it would be her last and that I wouldn't be hearing from her again because she had a dream where she went down in a firey plane crash That was over a year ago and she lived and nothing even remotely happened to her on her trip. Sometimes her talk freaks me out. VenetianPrincess talks about her
fear of flying A friend of mine has that. She’s been strip searched at airport security and that’s made it worse for her to deal with going to the airport, let alone getting on a plane. She still travels by plane though, but she’s told me last time she was planning a trip that it would be her last and that I wouldn’t be hearing from her again because she had a dream where she went down in a firey plane crash That was over a year ago and she lived and nothing even remotely happened to her on her trip. Sometimes her talk freaks me out.

]]> By: swampwiz http://hotforwords.com/2009/08/30/nerd-word-of-the-day-anatidaephobia/#comment-152919 swampwiz Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:22:15 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=7432#comment-152919 Here's a nerd situation in need to a good word: The act of going through a menu and clicking on the wrong menu item. I suppose that thus could happen with any GUI control, but it seems almost exclusively the domain of menus. Perhaps the word should be: mismenu ? mismenuize ? It could be a serious thing as a rename could become delete (or cut instead of copy), and if the user would accidentally hit OK, that's all she wrote (although I suppose he could go the Recycle Bin or Clipboard.) Here’s a nerd situation in need to a good word:

The act of going through a menu and clicking on the wrong menu item.

I suppose that thus could happen with any GUI control, but it seems almost exclusively the domain of menus.

Perhaps the word should be:

mismenu ?

mismenuize ?

It could be a serious thing as a rename could become delete (or cut instead of copy), and if the user would accidentally hit OK, that’s all she wrote (although I suppose he could go the Recycle Bin or Clipboard.)

]]> By: tonyb http://hotforwords.com/2009/08/30/nerd-word-of-the-day-anatidaephobia/#comment-152121 tonyb Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:21:54 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=7432#comment-152121 That pushy attempt by Dr. Michael A Healy to scare me into submission in his office for a brain cyst operation and thinking he has me threatened on my street and some strangers making scary remarks at the store, make me think I am being followed by a mean old duck. What was the criteria the PhD psychologists told me YOU MUST BE A DANGER TO YOURSELF OR A DANGER TO OTHERS. FOR THEM TO COMMIT YOU!! Maybe Dr. Healy is with the CIA? A MD at an outpatient clinic at MSU also tried to get controlling with me in 1985 about my Tranxene perscription. So I just quit him and went "cold turkey" without the stuff. That pushy attempt by Dr. Michael A Healy to scare me into submission in his office for a brain cyst operation and thinking he has me threatened on my street and some strangers making scary remarks at the store, make me think I am being followed by a mean old duck. What was the criteria the PhD psychologists told me YOU MUST BE A DANGER TO YOURSELF OR A DANGER TO OTHERS. FOR THEM TO COMMIT YOU!! Maybe Dr. Healy is with the CIA? A MD at an outpatient clinic at MSU also tried to get controlling with me in 1985 about my Tranxene perscription. So I just quit him and went “cold turkey” without the stuff.

]]> By: CampKohler - Sacramento CA http://hotforwords.com/2009/08/30/nerd-word-of-the-day-anatidaephobia/#comment-150972 CampKohler - Sacramento CA Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:36:09 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=7432#comment-150972 If anatidae means ducks and phobia means fear of, where is the "being looked at" part? Without the third part, it could just as easily mean fear of being overheard by ducks, fear of having one's socks darned by ducks or anything else. Otherwise the first person to define the term sets it in stone and no further uses involving ducks can be made, which doesn't make sense to me. If anatidae means ducks and phobia means fear of, where is the “being looked at” part? Without the third part, it could just as easily mean fear of being overheard by ducks, fear of having one’s socks darned by ducks or anything else. Otherwise the first person to define the term sets it in stone and no further uses involving ducks can be made, which doesn’t make sense to me.

]]> By: thegorn http://hotforwords.com/2009/08/30/nerd-word-of-the-day-anatidaephobia/#comment-150733 thegorn Sun, 06 Sep 2009 05:51:30 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=7432#comment-150733 Love conquers all... Love conquers all…

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