no need to live in fear @neiltyson !!! From stardust and to stardust we shall return.
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@neiltyson Wanna know what the phobia of science is called? Creationism...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson Favorite phobia name of all time is hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, the fear of long words.#fridaythe13thThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson People want names for their fears that lend gravitas, so it sounds like an illness rather than they're pussies about spiders.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson Is there a phobia to long names? -
@eldelaruana@neiltyson hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is a fear of long words. That's just cruel. -
@sunechobiz@neiltyson There you go! Too bad whoever suffers from that phobia can't be told by his/her doctor the name of the illness :) -
@eldelaruana@neiltyson Imagine trying to tell people what you've got: "I'm hippopot..hippo...hipp...never mind."
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@neiltyson Wait. "Triskadekaphobia" is an all-Greek word. How did a Norse goddess get hung on the front of it? Friday being "Frigga's Day"? -
@LookoutsGirl@neiltyson must be. Strange. It's the day of Aphrodite in Greek.
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@neiltyson I think they put "frigga" in that word as a hidden skepticism -
@debilarge@neiltyson No it has to do where the name for Friday game from, after the goddess Frigg when she got associated with Venus -
@Roguebfl@neiltyson Thanks for that info! It was my attempt at a joke. - 1 more reply
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@neiltyson@TheLadyLysy Gotta love the mostly Greek-derived (with a touch of Norse) names for fears. "Fear of Friday the 13th" suits me.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson@MrAtheistPants My wife doesn't want to have sex on Friday the 13th...umm actually she doesn't want it any day, never mind.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson because those of us in psychology need to feel like real scientists so we needed some lengthy, difficult to remember wordsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson Surprised to find a Germanic morpheme in a Greek word…Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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