Tuesday 20 January 2009

Onomatomania

Onomatomania
onomatomania
onomatomania
will not make you brainier.

11 comments:

TimT said...

Will it make you wartier?

TimT said...

Or am I confusing that with Onanomatomania?

TimT said...

Is onamatomania onomatopaeic? Can onomatopaeia be onomatomanic? And is there such a thing as onomatopaeiomania, or onomatonomatopaeimania?

Alexis, Baron von Harlot said...

Apocryphal theories of wart acquisition will not be tolerated on this blog.

Alexis, Baron von Harlot said...

Onomatomania: n, "obsession with a particular word which the person uses repeatedly or which intrudes into consciousness."

Say it often enough and it's onomatopoeic with a vengeance.

TimT said...

(To be sung to the tune of 'One enchanted evening')

Onomatomanic!
Onomatopaeia!
Cacademomania!
Rhinotillexomania!
(etc)

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TimT said...

(Onomatopoetic!)

TimT said...

Manic Limerick...

Hexametromania!
Onychotillomania!
Melomania?
Notomania!
Trichotillomania!

Red Wombat said...

Warning! Excess use of the word onomatomania can result in floccinaucinihilipilification, and possibly pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which could make you feel very ill.

Alexis, Baron von Harlot said...

Now you're just showing off, RW.

Red Wombat said...

Well, really! *cough*

I mean, OF COURSE I'm showing off.

What's the point of pretentiously large words sitting there gathering dust in some old trunk or cardboard box full of half-read over-enthusiastic dictionaries and unread David Flynn poems?

"No!" I say! On with the best pin-stripe suit and runners, and flaunt and fly them big words like fighter-kites in an autumn breeze.

Incidentally, I fear that I have contracted a (singular, very small, and soon to disappear) finger-wart from excess perusal of this blog. I must say, I am rather concerned that internet viruses have evolved so quickly and fiercely.