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#204711 02/17/12 02:09 AM
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Anybody here know what this is? (Hint: just saw it on iGoogle.)

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wiki does
heh.

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I would think it would be a fear of Greek laws: νόμος It could also be a fear of nomograms, which are charts showing quick and dirty approximations
of variables. I think an old fashioned slide rule is an example, IIRC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomogram

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I'd say it's just a generalized fear that you ain't gonna get no mo' nothin'.

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Harrumph. I would have guessed that nomophobia was the fear of rules.


Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Oh my gosh--I can't believe I got you, zmjezhd! I wasn't trying to, honest!

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Now it's my turn to be confused.


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Amazing. I am a total nomophobe.


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