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
The fear of long words is called “hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.”
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 is
Aphantasia
So the answer for 18 across was aaaa?
Yep, the whole crossword puzzle is like that.
I have aphantasia, and you don’t actually need to visualize anything to do that.
I, for example, have a constant verbal stream, so I’d just spell it out audibly in my head, and tick off every third letter.
I suffer from a very sexy learning disability.
What do I call it Kif?
sigh
Sexlexia.
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’).
Good to know, in general, but the irony of this term is still funny to me.
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.
What’s this got to do about my Dyson?
I don’t want my son to dy!
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