#logophobia

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Don't ever laugh or devalue people who have "weird" phobias! For you, their phobias may seem harmless and stupid, and for people with these phobias, because of your ridicule and depreciation, they may start feel uncomfortable about this, and may even stop sharing their worries with you!

(The video does not apply to any specific individuals! In this video I wanted to show the problem and my personal experience!)

Coulrophobia - fear of clowns

Apiphobia - fear of bees, wasps and their bites

Glossophobia/Logophobia - fear of public speaking

LOGOPHOBIA Fear of the word is fear of the thing itself.Fear aggression, strike out when you’re terrified.Ban the words to identify your opposition.Scary, scary words: activism, activists, advocacy, advocate, advocates, barrier, barriers, biased, biased toward, biases, biases towards, bipoc, black and latinx, community diversity, community equity, cultural differences, cultural heritage,…

This extends to its ministers in the Northern Executive not using the name Northern Ireland, though they are in government there.

Such use of language can seem “childish or bizarre”, says Professor Jonathan Tonge of the University of Liverpool who has previously written about Sinn Féin’s dilemma of “serving in a government of a northern state(let) whilst refusing to use the state(let’s) name”.

The language Sinn Féin uses to describe the Republic, or rather to avoid describing it, has come into sharper focus since the party won the largest share of votes in the general election.

- Ronan McGreevy (here: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/why-sinn-f%C3%A9in-will-not-call-the-state-by-its-name-1.4182195)

by falling/through/the silence/of this wide/open mouth"

Squinter, Robin Livingston

These ‘word wars’ had some practical implications – there were prolonged difficulties over the title President of Ireland in the letters of accreditation presented by UK or Commonwealth diplomats: the compromise was to refer to the President by name, without specifying the title, and likewise for Irish diplomats to present letters addressed to the British monarch, giving his/her name but without any descriptive title, but there was no exchange of ambassadors between Australia and Ireland for more than a decade because the Commonwealth of Australia refused to accept these arrangements. By the late 1960s, however, Britain was the only country not to refer to the state as Ireland, and in January 1973 Ireland became a member of the EEC and is called by that name by other members of the EU.

Professor Mary Daly

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