fear of umbrellas

[alilloyd]

someone in blackwell's confused astronomy with astroglogy today. i can vaguely understand, because it's usually the stuff ending in -oglogy that is proper science. oh well

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[disenchantdpony]

The modern Greek word for umbrella is omprela. Hmm. Not sure about the Ancient Greek. Umbrella is from umbra though, so you could use some derivative of the Greek word for shadow, whatever that might be. Except that then you've got a fear of shadows. But parabrichophobic is distinctly unsatisfying. Hmm...

[alilloyd]

that's good, i'll try and find out exactly how making umbra into umbrella changes the meaning, and then do a similar thing to the greek for shadow. thanks.

[alilloyd]

oh and apparently ombrella is an acceptable spelling of umbrella. i might start calling them that.

[lecabinet]

I was thinking of making an Aphex Twin brolly. Would that scare you?

[alilloyd]

depends if it is evil face of aphex twin or the three line thing enclosed by a circle.

[alilloyd]

right i have discovered that shadow is skia or some such thing, and diminutives are formed with -io endings or sometimes -ario. so i make that something like skiariophobia. and rain is broch so parabrochophobia. one of those two. although i have an expert onto it.

-ology

[anonymous]

Re: properly scientific things ending in '-ology'...

Consider the mildly interesting counterexample of 'scientology', which is that stupid religous type thingy (of which I admittedly know next to nothing about) that Tom Cruise believes in.

Haben sie Cramond?

Re: -ology

[alilloyd]

ja ich bin habe die cramond.

i know nothing about scientoglogy either. so that's three -oglogys that aren't proper science: astroglogy, scientoglogy and bioglogy. hmmm. wonder if there are more.

sieg hail, ich bin gay.

Re: -ology

[heyladyray]

ah yes, the astronomy/astrology mix-up. I can almost forgive the astrologers getting it wrong but not the other way around.

Why isn't biology a science???
Technically psychology and sociology (and philosophy and theology) aren't sciences either (ref Karl Popper)

There are tons of ologies that aren't I reckon. Ontology is a theory. Or were you distinguishing subject ologies from theory ologies and just general noun ologies (eg chronology)?

horology. Isn't that the study of clocks?

I'm going to be obsessed with ologies for the rest of the day now.

Re: -oglogy

[alilloyd]

i was just taking a cheap shot at bioglogy :-) in the original thing, i just meant that if something ends in -oglogy then it is usually more of a science than the same thing with a different ending; for example i would consider philoglogy & more of a science than philosophy, bioglogy more than biography, geoglogy more than geography etc.

myspace

[nightviser]

heya. are Entropy on Myspace?

Re: myspace

[alilloyd]

no. they could be though. shall i do it?

Re: myspace

[nightviser]

Yeah you might as well. Seems to be the 'done-thing' these days and is a v easy way of getting lots of people to hear your music.
We should meet for a drink soon.