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In the News (Mon 21 Dec 09)

  
  LOGOPHOBIA: Treatment and Hope
To add insult to an already distressing condition, most logophobia therapies take months or years and sometimes even require the patient to be exposed repeatedly to their fear.
logophobia will likely cost you tens, even hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of your lifetime, let alone the cost to your health and quality of life.
The Logophobia Clinic at The CTRN Phobia ClinicÂȘ is entirely results-focused, so we charge you for the result you want: freedom from logophobia - regardless of how long it takes.
www.changethatsrightnow.com /problem_detail.asp?PhobiaID=1659&SDID=268   (1347 words)

  
 Logophobia
Another victim of logophobia is DeLores Tucker, chairwoman of the National Political Congress of Black Women.
Someone who understood the evil of logophobia as few ever have was the late Lenny Bruce.
Logophobia eventually took away his career and his life but it never conquered him.
users.rcn.com /kyp/logophob.html   (688 words)

  
 Logophobia - Eric Voegelin on SCIENTISM - The Intercollegiate Review, Fall 1999 - Author: Michael P. Federici Eric ...
Logophobia - Eric Voegelin on SCIENTISM - The Intercollegiate Review, Fall 1999 - Author: Michael P. Federici Eric Voegerlin by Dr.Michael.
Voegelin call this aversion to philosophy "logophobia" (fear and hatred of philosophy).
The political and social consequences of positivist logophobia include the destruction of human consciousness of the Agathon (the Good), which in turn severs any connection between the order of the soul and the order of the political community.
evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /federici.htm   (3659 words)

  
 Chapter 5. International Exchanges. 2. Briticisms in the United States. Mencken, H.L. 1921. The American Language
Gordon Hall Gerould, of Princeton, who argues that it would be a sensible thing for Americans to adopt the English lift and tram in place of the more cumbersome elevator and trolley-car, and that the English, in their turn, would find the communication of ideas easier if they borrowed some of our American neologisms.
24 “Logophobia,” he says, “has usually been a sign, in men of our race, of a certain thinness of blood.
The man of imagination and the man with something to say have never been afraid of words, even words that have rung strangely on the ear.
www.bartleby.com /185/24.html   (2318 words)

  
 The terrifying truth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
If you cringed at the sight of the word arachibutyrophbia, you may suffer from hippopotomo-nstrosesquippedaliophobia, or the fear of long words.
Or maybe you have epistemophobia, the fear of knowledge, or maybe logophobia, fear of words.
If the latter is your ailment, I urge you to keep reading, though it may be excruciating.
www.gradyhighschool.org /southerner/southerner1103/truth.html   (333 words)

  
 Logophobia Treatment Cause Symptom Medication Cure Help
The expert phobia team at CTRN's Phobia Clinic is board-certified to help with Logophobia and a variety of related problems.
The success rate of our 24 hour program is close to 100%.
Logophobia is known by a number of different names.
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www.himmrich-holzlar.de /Linonophobia-50573   (258 words)

  
 Foucault, "The Discourse on Language," Summary
The apparent supremacy given discourse in our culture masks a fear; all our forms of discourse serve to control it, to relieve its richness of its most dangerous elements; to organize its disorder.
This logophobia is a fear of the mass of spoken things, the possibility of errant, unrestrained discourse.
In order to analyze the conditions of this fear, we need to resolve ourselves to accept three conditions, which our current thinking rather tends to resist, and which belong to the three groups of function Foucault has just mentioned:
www.brocku.ca /english/courses/4F70/discourse.html   (2280 words)

  
 Shop Mini-Comics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This is actually an essay (rather than a comic): 'Inventing Comics: Scott McCloud's Definition of Comics' which I began writing in 1995 in response to McCloud's
Initially it was going to be an article called 'Logophobia' for Jeff Levine's fanzine
Well, I missed the deadline by a week, but by that time 'Logophobia' had grown into a 9000-word monster.
www.hicksville.co.nz /Shop%20minicomics.htm   (1136 words)

  
 ELB Brighton
English grammar, pronunciation, board games, esl book recommendations, flashcards, board games, song lyrics and more.
A site full of words games, anagrams, palindromes, etymology, oxymorons etc. Not a site for those suffering from logophobia.
Lots of links to word-related pages and interesting pages on Net Lingua - the language of the Internet.
www.elb-brighton.com /resources.htm   (973 words)

  
 The 'Definitive' Critique of General Semantics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In his book Word Play, Peter Farb, a linguistic anthropologist, provides a good example of another kind of critic.
Farb considers Korzybski guilty of "logophobia" and of advocating avoiding abstractions (193-194).
Given such a caricature of general-semantics, it seems hard to believe that Farb bothered to look at Science and Sanity.
www.driveyourselfsane.com /gsarticles/maxblack.html   (10110 words)

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