Why is the word for "a fear of long words," hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, so long?

I don't get that...
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LiveLoveMusic said:
Because the people who came up with the word were trying to be ironic.
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misscrazel said:
I think it's Latin.
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Whirlwind586 said:
It's probably because whoever made it long is an asshole to those who have that fear.

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pipiqueen said:
i've a doubt it is even bigger than the biggest word in the dictionary- pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis!


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_Aleena_ said:
Because the person who named it that must of wanted to make it reeeaaalllyyy ironic..
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ilovejames33 said:
I DONT KNOW L.OL XXXXXX
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Ryuuikari said:
It's called trolling
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 It's called trolling
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damn it... آپ beat me to the مککا, عجیب الخلقت line... XD
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LocalArtistist said:
It's Latin and translates into: the fear of really big monstrously hippo sized words, یا something like that I'm not too sure.
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darange said:
i honestly dont know
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DragonAura15 said:
Because the person who made the word was trying to help people conquer their fear! XD
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True-Finn-Fan said:
well the people who had to label all these fears probably had REALLY BORING JOBS doing it so they decided that the might as well have some fun with it if they were going to have to label ever single fear...

i also bet that when the wrote the name for the fear of the color red... they wrote it in red ink
heck they probably even wrote a word for the Fear of Words... یا reading

some people just try and make their jobs مزید interesting.... XD
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 well the people who had to label all these fears probably had REALLY BORING JOBS doing it so they decided that the might as well have some fun with it if they were going to have to label ever single fear... i also bet that when the wrote the name for the fear of the color red... they wrote it in red ink heck they probably even wrote a word for the Fear of Words... یا reading some people just try and make their jobs مزید interesting.... XD
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kiboutsumiki said:
The reason would probably be idiotic anyway, so i wouldn't think too much about it. ( ˘ω˘ )
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-SilverFey- said:
Hippopotomonsrosesquippedalio is a root that means long words. It is sometimes shortened to sesquippedalio.
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summer2987 said:
I have no idea . Let me just go ask the person who made the word .
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