hip, hip, hippopot.. ahfergetit
Eric at Classical Values writes that a cure has been found for hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (fear of very long words). Well, good. Now I breathlessly await the cure for pneumoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
Breathlessly, get it? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. (wipes tear from eye) Oh, I slay me.
Robot Guy, your veritable cornucopia of polysyllabic verbiage.
Update, a few seconds later: Apparently not satisfied with the already obscene length of the word, the geniuses at Merriam-Webster added two additional letters to produce pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which means precisely the same thing - a lung disease (pneumoconiosis) caused by breathing fine silicates or quartz dust. The silly part of this is that the new word should mean the opposite, due to the addition of the letters "no" between pneumo- and -ultra.
I guess these are the same guys who decided that flammable and inflammable should mean the same thing. As Woody on Cheers said, "boy, did I ever learn that the hard way."
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