Aibohphobia
Michael Iles
Can anyone guess what the object of this phobia might be?
Mike.
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Thomas M. Schenk
Michael Iles wrote:
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> Can anyone guess what the object of this phobia might be?
I suppose it represents a not very subtle invitation to all repressed
palindromists to open a new thread, having little or nothing to do with
alt.usage.english.
Tom
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>Can anyone guess what the object of this phobia might be?
The fear of palindromes.
-enk
Mike Barnes
In alt.usage.english, Michael Iles <th...@internauts.ca> spake thuswise:
>Can anyone guess what the object of this phobia might be?
Foraef.
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Charles A. Lee
On Wed, 02 Jul 1997 10:17:48 -0400, Michael Iles <th...@internauts.ca>
wrote:
>Can anyone guess what the object of this phobia might be?
>
Perhaps a slight misspelling? Perhaps: Aidohphobia after Aidos "the
ancient Greek personification of modesty, respect, and shame" as RHUD2
puts it. ? fear of public disapprobation ?
Charles A. Lee
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Bob Cunningham
Michael Iles <th...@internauts.ca> said:
>Can anyone guess what the object of this phobia might be?
A few years ago, before the Internet and Usenet became popular, there
used to be a somewhat different culture in which people subscribed to
"bulletin-board services" ("BBS"s) and exchanged messages through
networks with names like "ILink" and "RIME". Where Usenet has
"newsgroup"s, that culture had "conference"s. The culture still exists,
but there are signs it's dying out, participants having defected in
large numbers to Usenet.
A feature of that culture was the "tagline", which was somewhat
analogous to the portion of the typical Usenet signature that contains a
favorite quip or quotation of the sender. An important exception was
that taglines were strictly limited to one line, while Usenet signatures
are limited by good netiquette to four lines and in practice too often
extend to many more lines than that.
People freely copied and used taglines invented by others, so that a
really good tagline would spread like wildfire through the community.
Some message-handling software featured the ability to select
automatically, in sequence or at random, from a file of taglines the
user had collected. and some packages came out of the box with a file
containing a large assortment of taglines.
Some typical taglines were:
God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.
The more times you run over a cat the flatter it gets.
Palindromes are fun but tub nuf era semordnilap.
Unemployed photographer will shoot for food.
If "b-u-r-d" doesn't spell "bird", what in hell does it spell?
I bought a box of batteries but they weren't included.
This tagline intentionally left blank.
And:
Aibohphobia, the fear of palindromes.
Aaron J. Dinkin
How exactly do you pronounce "aibohphobia"? In my mind's ear (credit Markus
Laker), I've been hearing /,aIb@'fobi@/, but that somehow doesn't seem
right.
-Aaron J. Dinkin
Dr. Whom