I am looking for a name for an idea that I have for a website. It is a niche hobby, but there is a greek word for it that most people don’t know. Lets say its a book club and the word was Bibliophile or a music club called Melophile.
Would you, if you did not know the meaning, think of it as something sexual, or maybe even something bad? I am nervous that users might relate it to pedophile even though that is just one of, (but maybe best known) philias there are
“Audiophile” has never before brought to mind the concept of “pedophile”.
In fact, note the way we shorten the word: “pedo”.
I wouldn’t worry about it. But I’m autistic, so the way my brain processes these words might be different than an NT’s brain.
Mostly I think it’s only going to be a problem for people who are looking for trouble, and you can’t really avoid problems with those people.
No, because I’m no uncultured swine.
There’s only two words with the ‘phile’ ending that is sexual that I can think of. But audiophile, videophile, and a host of others use that ending in the context of a preference or attraction: nemophile has nothing to do with animated fish, for instance. Hemophilia is another example of a commonplace word that is definitely not sexual.
I want to think the average person knows there’s no sex in halophilia, but we could be overestimating.
You may be right, but it is interesting that most sexual interests have a “-philia” name although they are described as paraphilias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paraphilias
Paraphilias are described just as atypical sexual interests, so by the looks pretty much anything outside of the “standard missionary married male and female lights off until male cums”, which seems pretty specific and probably should be described as paraphilia too. Tradphilia? Xd
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I have some interest in chemistry and after a while when I hear “phile” my first thought is “they are attracted to water”.
Hydrophilic!
So… you are a chemophile!! See what I mean? It kind of sounds negative without it being the case.
That part where it sounds negative is happening in your own head.
I think if you step back and evaluate this thread, you’ll find we’re all telling you it’s a non-problem.
My advice is to not worry about it and move on.
And, long shot, maybe take a look at your social surroundings and see if you’ve been in a group of pathological offense-takers. Hanging out with these types can result in your seeing the world as a minefield of unintended social insult.
It really seems to me like the thing you’re worried about is a non-issue.
A nucleophile happens by and notices your electrophile. Your electrophile is attracted to their greater electron density and ditches you, the leaving group, for them. Was this SN1 or SN2?
There is audiophile. It refers to someone who is obsessed about audio quality.
Theres also Audiophilic content too, and yet if you say you’re an audiophile no one mistakes it to mean you listen to audio porn. Context is going to be king with that suffix I wager.
Phile is pretty much the best known greek suffix out there. It gets tagged onto most hobbies, so you don’t have to worry about it being defaulted to sexual matters. Tbh, most of the paraphilias are so obscure that nobody without an interest in the field is going to know them the way -phobias are. I mean, can you name the other chronophilias besides pedophilia? Did you even know that there were others? Most people really only know one or two sexual-philias at most, where they’ll have heard of a dozen or so non sexual ones.
But, just tacking phile or philia onto a word can be clunky, so you might end up with it not working well anyway.
Only dumb people will
That’s a large group though.
Yeah but fuck em
where do you think they keep coming from??
Sorry my bad. Butt fuck them
