Comment on The word "phonetic" is not spelled phonetically.

cholesterol@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Those are all heterological words, just like “phonetic”.

  Autological (or homological) would be words like “pentasyllabic”, “unhyphenated” and “writable.”.

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  • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Does the word heterological describe itself?

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Uffff, right in my autism.

      Luckily the internet helps with that.

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grelling–Nelson_paradox

      The paradox can be eliminated, without changing the meaning of “heterological” where it was previously well-defined, by modifying the definition of “heterological” slightly to hold all nonautological words except “heterological”. But “nonautological” is subject to the same paradox, for which this evasion is not applicable because the rules of English uniquely determine its meaning from that of “autological”. A similar slight modification to the definition of “autological” (such as declaring it false of “nonautological” and its synonyms) might seem to correct that, but the paradox still remains for synonyms of “autological” and “heterological” such as “self-descriptive” and “non–self-descriptive”, whose meanings also would need adjusting, and the consequences of those adjustments would then need to be pursued, and so on. Freeing English of the Grelling–Nelson paradox entails considerably more modification to the language than mere refinements of the definitions of “autological” and “heterological”, which need not even be in the language for the paradox to arise. The scope of these obstacles for English is comparable to that of Russell’s paradox for mathematics founded on sets.

      Tldr “does the set of all sets contain itself?”

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      • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Haha, I’m sorry. It was definitely a set-up.

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      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This just makes me mad lol

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    • AffineConnection@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • AffineConnection@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That was the answer to the question. God (creator) deleted it.

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  • ech@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My favorite is ‘Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia’, which is the word for the condition of being phobic of long words. Feels like the doctor who named that one was a bit of a dick XD

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    • SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same, always fascinated me when I first learnt it

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• Ghyste@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The fear of long words is Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

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