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Do people also use letters that they like more than other letters? If so, an interesting proof of concept might be to reconstruct a person's full birth name fr
by scarmig 9y ago
Do people also use letters that they like more than other letters?
If so, an interesting proof of concept might be to reconstruct a person's full birth name from a corpus of their writing.
- jpttsn 9y agoI don't really know why I'm sharing this but I hate the letter M. When I start sentences, I tend to avoid it on a whim, to the detriment of being expressive. I realize starting sentences with "my" or "maybe" would be much more expressive, but I irrationally refrain from it.
- captn3m0 9y agomuphobia is the fear of the letter m.
- wingerlang 9y agoGoogle give very very few results. Feels like someone wanted to invent something and put it on a phobia-wiki then it became referenced from there. Could be wrong though.
- OJFord 9y agoMore likely, I would think, is that people rarely need to refer to muphobia, especially specifically muphobia, but that it is acceptable to refer to 'fear of the letter ~' by '≈phobia', where ≈ is the anglicised name of the Greek letter from which ~ is derived.
- wingerlang 9y agoIs there a legitimate list of phobias? I just don't think a fandom "phobia wiki" seems like a legitimate resource.
- OJFord 9y agoOther than a comprehensive dictionary? I'm not sure. I should think joining 'phobia' to any Greek noun is acceptable though. Perhaps verbs too.
- OJFord 9y agoI looked this up by the way, Collin's Concise Plus says it's a 'combining form', and may be used generally (without even saying the prefix should be Greek as I guessed above) to indicate a phobia of what precedes it. Probably better to stick to Greek prefixes though - there can't be many words you could choose that wouldn't have an already in use or at least more sensible sounding Greek alternative. 'Internet', perhaps.
- jpttsn 9y agoJust like dyslexia ought to be easier to spell, I don't think I'll be using that word.
- Neliquat 9y agoAlso kind of a dick move to name the word for the phobia an actual trigger for it.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoWhat's the English for fear of "mu" then ...
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoWell, I try to avoid "I" to start a sentence; but that's because I was taught it was bad grammar. I dislike "e" because it's hard to paint small. I also find J as a capital to be really awkward looking, but it's one of my initials.
- jwilk 9y ago> I try to avoid "I" to start a sentence; but that's because I was taught it was bad grammar. Huh?
- kbp 9y agoIt's certainly not bad grammar, but starting a lot of sentences with the word I is often considered bad style (both for the repetition and for the emphasis it places on yourself), and it's something a lot of kids do naturally; I assume that's what they meant to say.
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- kzrdude 9y agoI don't think there should be any correlation, unless it's a text composed by thinking of letters for some reason. Usually we think in concepts, sentences and words, not letters when formulating ourselves.