Re: Word count of minimum vocabulary

Artur Jachacy wrote:

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
Artur Jachacy wrote:
Peter T. Daniels wrote:
me wrote:

What would be a "right" translation of hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
(fear of long words) to Chinese and is there a Chinese term (such as the
English word "term") which would indicate that it is a translation of a
single English word rather than a translation of a noun clause? In other
words, can you say in Chinese, "!@#$ @#%% $#%#" is the Putonghua term for
the English word hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia"?
What makes you think a word containing roots 'horse', 'river',
'monster', '1.5', and 'foot' means 'fear of long words'?
What makes you think the etymology determines the meaning?

Obviously it doesn't. No one has yet explained the word, though.

Sesquipedalophobia for 'hatred or fear of big words' was supposedly
invented by Bryan A. Garner. Where they got the rest I have no idea.

That much kind of makes sense, as "sesquipedalian" is already a
joke-word for 'long-worded'. (It means 1 1/2 feet.) But the hippo and
the monster in front?
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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