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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (3 children)

You think that's fucked?

The inability to pronounce "R" is called Rhotacism.

If you have it you're literally unable to say the name of it

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Relevant XKCD

18 across says “every third letter in the word for “inability to visualise””.
You'd need to figure out what word this is, and then visualise every third letter of it. Which you can't do if you have it!

The word isAphantasia

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So the answer for 18 across was aaaa?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yep, the whole crossword puzzle is like that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

The fear of long words is called "hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That's awefull and hilarious at the same time!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I suffer from a very sexy learning disability.

What do I call it Kif?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

sigh

Sexlexia.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

From Oxford Languages (what Google uses):

late 19th century: coined in German from dys- ‘difficult’ + Greek lexis ‘speech’ (apparently by confusion of Greek legein ‘to speak’ and Latin legere ‘to read’).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Good to know, in general, but the irony of this term is still funny to me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's this got to do about my Dyson?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I don't want my son to dy!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

all those kinds of imparements are puns. like haveing a lisp. or to stutter. all speech and reading imparements are words that are hard to pronounce or read by the people affected. no idea why. just saying its the rule and no exception.

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