while doing some research for a neologisms theme I came across the term 'dentapedalogy', the science (or art) of opening your mouth and putting your foot in, ostensibly coined by Prince Philip (a prime practitioner). I find nearly as many google-hits (180) for dontapedalogy as for the denta- form (190gh).
neither form is all that linguistically satisfying -- some wag suggested that orpatopedalogy would be better.
-joe (don't talk with your mouth open) friday
orpatopedalogy
What does that mean?
I'd go with podistomatasm if pressed to go with anything.
orpatopedalogy
What does that mean?
yeah. perhaps he was just underlining the haplessness of the others.
Latin os, oris, is mouth, but pato? Duck? The study of mouth-duck-feet? High Martian.
Pato is Spanish for duck but it's from Persian/Arabic. Anas is Latin for duck. That said, I don't see anything starting with pat- in my Latin dictionary that means mouth.
When applied to humans, I associate stoma with colostomy too much to associate podistomatasm with the mouth. (^_^)
I associate stoma with colostomy too much to associate podistomatasm with the mouth.
I know how you feel. I associate colon with pigeons and semi-colon with appendices.
>I associate colon with pigeons
You're a rara avis, Nunc.
Foot-in-mouth disease, they call that.
wellyeah®, that's evidently the concept that's looking for a word.
-ron o.