Why is the word for "a fear of long words," hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, so long?

Because the people who came up with the word were trying to be ironic.

I think it's Latin.

It's probably because whoever made it long is an asshole to those who have that fear.

:3

i've a doubt it is even bigger than the biggest word in the dictionary- pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis!

Because the person who named it that must of wanted to make it reeeaaalllyyy ironic..

I DONT KNOW L.OL XXXXXX

It's called trolling

It's Latin and translates into: the fear of really big monstrously hippo sized words, or something like that I'm not too sure.

i honestly dont know

Because the person who made the word was trying to help people conquer their fear! XD

well the people who had to label all these fears probably had REALLY BORING JOBS doing it so they decided that the might as well have some fun with it if they were going to have to label ever single fear...

i also bet that when the wrote the name for the fear of the color red... they wrote it in red ink
heck they probably even wrote a word for the Fear of Words... or reading

some people just try and make their jobs mais interesting.... XD

The reason would probably be idiotic anyway, so i wouldn't think too much about it. ( ˘ω˘ )

Hippopotomonsrosesquippedalio is a root that means long words. It is sometimes shortened to sesquippedalio.

I have no idea . Let me just go ask the person who made the word .