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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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'd simply guess "lover, liker, fond of", without any obligatory sexual connotation. Even if I don't recognise the first part, as in... say, "wugphile" ("wug" is just a nonsense placeholder).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you created a page called "Wugphile" I would totally think it was about linguistics :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Well, considering the type of website that I'd create, that would be spot on. Perhaps with some sort of visual pun between "wugphile" and "wug file", and abstract art for Chomsky's "colourless green ideas sleep furiously".