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Re: Phobias

Post by Montreal Wanderer » Wed Dec 05, 2012 5:13 pm

thebish wrote:
Lost Leopard Spot wrote:
thebish wrote:pardosophobia...
Tragoidephobia - an irrational fear of goats... it comes from the same (Greek) root as Tragedy which means goat song - Tragoidos - except it's Τραγοιδος obviously
I didn't know that! 8)
Nonetheless it is true as far as tragedy is concerned. τραγῳδία is a combined form of τράγος goat + ᾠδή ode, song (I'm not sure LLS got the combination quite right since the ος is dropped.
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Re: Phobias

Post by Montreal Wanderer » Wed Dec 05, 2012 5:15 pm

Bish clearly (from his sig) suffers from hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia.
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Re: Phobias

Post by thebish » Thu Dec 06, 2012 10:12 am

Montreal Wanderer wrote:
thebish wrote:
Lost Leopard Spot wrote:
thebish wrote:pardosophobia...
Tragoidephobia - an irrational fear of goats... it comes from the same (Greek) root as Tragedy which means goat song - Tragoidos - except it's Τραγοιδος obviously
I didn't know that! 8)
Nonetheless it is true as far as tragedy is concerned. τραγῳδία is a combined form of τράγος goat + ᾠδή ode, song (I'm not sure LLS got the combination quite right since the ος is dropped.

yes - as LLS said! - I believed him!

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