Joel Klebanoff: Stuff & Nonsense

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Archive for November 5th, 2008

Hellenologophobia —

Psychiatrists don’t seem to suffer from hellenologophobia, which is the fear of Greek terms or complex scientific jargon. A Google search for “phobia list” (without the quotes) returns more than one million Web pages, many of them containing long lists of scientific names for a variety of both considerably common and remarkably rare fears. The [...]