Lol glad google worked. Before I did the quiz I spent all morning creating a website to simply lock the giveaways behind a captcha. Was gonna make a random post about being a bot and link to the captcha. Ran out of time so followed the quiz path lol just glad I didn't make too many typos on the quiz that people can actually pass it hahahaha
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Yeah, me too
I even find the wikipedia article but nothing
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Thanks, was super confused trying all sorts of permutations and such
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lol yeah but then I have to rely on it working properly and accepting the space between the words :P
As for having to be plural, well we are dealing with geology and not witchcraft here ^^
Fixed it so it accepts Pedestal Rock, Hoodoo and Hoodoos lol
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Bump! Thanks a lot :) The guy who chose the term for the fear of long words is a massive jerk ngl
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Lol yup. In case you or anyone else is interested.
That word isa laughable creation, formed by combining words from both Greek and Latin.
First part comes from the Greek word meaning "river horse."
"Monstrum" is Latin for "monster."
"Sesquipedalian" is Latin, meaning "a foot and a half long," which was commonly used to define long words.
"Phobia" is again from Greek, meaning "fear."
So, it's essentially a combination of these to form a, rather hilarious, term that literally means "fear of long words."
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Awesome! Understanding where the words come from is actually pretty fun. We take for granted our languages but they have evolved a lot throughout history. 😁 Although, I wonder, what is considered as long? Is it a set amount of letters or syllables? My guess is that it's different for everyone, but having that phobia must be awful.
"Hey, I heard that you have like a phobia or something?"
"Yes, sadly I have hippopotomonstrosAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!"
"Ummh... are you okay?"
"Yeah, it happens all the time."
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lol yep. Makes me contemplate the scenario of the words origins, not that the origins of the word is even actually known. but still.
Person 1: "Alright, what do we call it when someone has a fear of long words?"
Person 2: "Hmm, how about 'hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia'?"
Person 1: "Wow, that's quite a mouthful! But isn't that a bit ironic?"
Person 2: "Indeed! It's like a floccinaucinihilipilification of simplicity, finding it futile when we're using such complex terms to describe a fear of long words."
Person 1: "You're f****d"
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i love that hippopotamus literally means "river horse". etymology is interesting.
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Bump!
I thought I knew at least the answer to the third without looking but nope! Not only was it the German one and instead has two instead of one.
Nice train!
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Bump for learning that a mushroom-shaped rock is a "mushroom rock", yet you chose the 2nd least used alternative name.
Also I thought the first answer didn't have a double p somewhere. That made me fail it first time.
All in all, I give this puzzle and train an 8/10. You can pass to the next round. Let's give an applause to our contestant while we have a few seconds of ads...
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Random stuff always gets me random pictures, random skyline, random smell etc. BUMP!
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Well I was going to make a short RPG with a bunch of giveaways hidden inside and I was going to make another CYOA however, I'm also lazy. Still going to do it, but while I finish proof reading and yada yada yada I figure I'll do a very small train. So here you go.
Level 3+ and uhh yeah cos I can't just give it to you without being annoying:
Quiz Time!
Good Luck and Enjoy ^^
Whilst there shouldn't be any issues with the keys, please allow deletion if there is.
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