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Oh wow. All I have to say, is that I am appalled at the massive amount of words there are for the most ridiculous things.
Take potichomania for instance. This word means an obsession with imitating Oriental porcelain. Okay, my first thought is who the hell have you ever heard of that goes walking around pretending to be a Chinese teapot?!!! Like, really! My next thought is that, well... someone had to do it, or else the word wouldn't exist, right?
If you'd like to be further amused by the ridiculous manias that apparently exist (like a craze for polka dancing, or an obsession with issuing odd marriage proposals), I suggest you check out this site: http://phrontistery.info/mania.html courtesy of Becky :P
What disturbed me even more was the site about all of the different kinds of divination. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that its a completely false and worthless practice, however some of these things are just ridiculous. For instance, divination by the fingernails, cheese, by touching one's shoulder, and frogs. Like... wow.
I feel like the reason when people will say, oh there's 20,000 (or however many, I don't really know) words in the English language and you're just like Wow! That seems ridicuolus, I don't think I could come up with that many! is because of ridiculous words like these. I totally think they just exist for dictionary filler. Its a conspiracy by dictionary makers so they can have larger dictionaries and make more money :P
... Anyway, that's all. I just was highly amused and thought I would share. Hope everyone had a good break ^^
Take potichomania for instance. This word means an obsession with imitating Oriental porcelain. Okay, my first thought is who the hell have you ever heard of that goes walking around pretending to be a Chinese teapot?!!! Like, really! My next thought is that, well... someone had to do it, or else the word wouldn't exist, right?
If you'd like to be further amused by the ridiculous manias that apparently exist (like a craze for polka dancing, or an obsession with issuing odd marriage proposals), I suggest you check out this site: http://phrontistery.info/mania.html courtesy of Becky :P
What disturbed me even more was the site about all of the different kinds of divination. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that its a completely false and worthless practice, however some of these things are just ridiculous. For instance, divination by the fingernails, cheese, by touching one's shoulder, and frogs. Like... wow.
I feel like the reason when people will say, oh there's 20,000 (or however many, I don't really know) words in the English language and you're just like Wow! That seems ridicuolus, I don't think I could come up with that many! is because of ridiculous words like these. I totally think they just exist for dictionary filler. Its a conspiracy by dictionary makers so they can have larger dictionaries and make more money :P
... Anyway, that's all. I just was highly amused and thought I would share. Hope everyone had a good break ^^