Pseudonymous Bosch's Blog, page 18
February 5, 2012
WE DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT!
PHONOPHOBIA or LIGYROPHOBIA:
Fear of Sound
Phonophobia (also called ligyrophobia) is a fear of loud sounds. It can also mean a fear of voices, or a fear of one's own voice. For example, listening to a CD that starts with a minute of silence and then suddenly goes into loud rock music would be extremely startling for most people, assuming they had no prior knowledge of the content of the CD. Being startled is in itself a normal reaction, but the key difference is that people withRead More...
Another Symphony of Smells....?
"Smells Like Beethoven"
February 4, 2012
FEAR OF SMELL
OLFACTOPHOBIA or OSMOPHOBIA:
Fear of smell.
Osmophobia (oz′mō-fō′bē-ă) or olfactophobia refers to a fear, aversion, or psychological hypersensitivity to smells or odors. The phobia generally occurs in chronic migraine sufferers who may have odor triggered migraines. Such migraines are most frequently triggered by foul odors, but the hypersensitivity may extend to all odors. One study found as many as 25% of migraine sufferers had some degree of osmophobia.
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February 2, 2012
Scared senseless ...
Agent D.R. sends in a suggestion that we look at the fears of the senses.
GEUMAPHOBIA
Geumaphobia: Fear of taste
Geumaphobia is the fear of taste. The origin of the word geuma is Greek (meaning taste) and phobia is Greek (meaning fear). Geumaphobia is considered to be a specific phobia. Geumaphobia is also known as Geumatophobia or Geumophobia.
What are the symptoms? As with any phobia, the symptoms vary by person depending on their level of fear. The symptoms Read More...
February 1, 2012
more common than you think
The Wordnik Word of the Day for February 2, 2012 is
sciamachy
http://www.wordnik.com/words/sciamachy
(noun) A fighting with a shadow; a futile combat with an imaginary enemy; shadow-boxing.
'Sciamachy' includes the Greek 'skia,' shade, shadow, and the Greek 'makhe,' battle, fight.
We know how it feels.
Oh, Canada
Top secret footage from the Canadian space program:
(the image will bring you to the footage)
January 31, 2012
transitive property
Agent GZ posits a theory:
"I have a strong suspicion that Quiche is writing the book, under the alter ego of the Impostor, under the alter ego of you under the alter ego of Pseudonymous Bosch under the alter ego of M-E. Ergo, he is all of the above. And a rabbit."
A human being a rabbit?? Now we've heard everything.
January 30, 2012
Quel dommage!
Unsettling headline:
The one piece of good news - this report does NOT come from Paris, France, but from Paris, Maine*. International alert recalled! This problem is solely America's.
*That's right, Paris, Maine - home of Vice President of the United States, Hannibal Hamlin who seRead More...
rhymes with orange
http://www.wordnik.com/words/synonymicon
(noun) A dictionary of synonymous words.
(noun) A thesaurus.
'Synonymicon' is made up of 'synonym,' which comes from the Greek word meaning 'word having the same sense as another,' and the Greek 'eikon,' likeness, image, portrait.
Example:
"Some of those early dictionaries, or lexicons, were arranged not alphabetically by word but by subject; some were simply dictionaries of difficult words; some merely sRead More...
