Nah, I just assume it's someone that really likes something. Kind of like saying food-porn but even less sexual. Like Audiophile is common parlance that evokes no sexual meaning.
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2024
61 points (85.9% liked)
Ask Lemmy
26628 readers
2247 users here now
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either [email protected] or [email protected].
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email [email protected]. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
No, because I'm no uncultured swine.
Is it “furryphile”? Then yeah, they’ll think it’s sexual.
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
“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.
Hello. Yes stupid people do this and I ignore them or laugh at them for being stupid.
Not necessarily, it depends on whether I recognize the first part of the word. For example, I dont immediately think "audiophile," is negative or sexual in nature.
It really depends. I think -phile tends to make me think non-sexual, and -philia makes me think sexual. Probably just because of how the words are used.
People tend to be willing to describe themselves as an x-phile, but psychological or legal literature are more likely to say something like "a person with x-philia" or "displaying traits of x-philia".
I suspect the part with descriptions in literature is due to it being in a 3rd person. There seems to be a recent-ish trend though for people to refer to themselves in a 'person who has X' sense though to separate the person from the condition so maybe that changes.
Person First language. "A person with autism" means we use the word for the diagnosis, rather than the word for a diagnosed person (e.g., "autist"? Was that ever a real word?).
That's the phrase I was looking for.
I'm pretty sure autist as a single word description was more a 4chan thing, but autistic person has been pretty common use.
In autistic online communities, we tend to refer to ourselves as autists. Sometimes I call myself “an autistic”.
It doesn’t bother me, personally. And it seems to not bother the other autistic people I’ve interacted with.
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.
Yeah I shared a link in an other comment about this. There seem to be quite a lot, and most of them end with "philia". This is also my main concern. That most will have heard the suffix used with one of those
I have some interest in chemistry and after a while when I hear "phile" my first thought is "they are attracted to water".
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?
Hydrophilic!
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.
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
I don't but I feel like some other people might.
view more: next ›