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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

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[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago

Most people here say no. I'm not so sure, however.

[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

When I was in a college level genetic biology class, we were discussing the early experiments using fruit flies. Their scientific name being Drosophila melanogaster; a species of fly in the family Drosophilidae. Pronounced "drow-sof-ila." Well I had only ever read it, so when I raised my hand to ask a question, I didn't understand why everyone was snickering as I pronounced it "draw-so-filia."

Here I was trying to talk about genetics and instead I was making public a secret fly kink

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 7 months ago

If I didn't know the meaning, I would just be confused about seeing the words since I wouldn't know what they meant.

[–] serpineslair@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I don't but I feel like some other people might.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Hello. Yes stupid people do this and I ignore them or laugh at them for being stupid.

[–] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

No, because I'm no uncultured swine.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago

No, but I'm surprised you didn't go with the suffix mania.

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