Would you think of words that you don't know, ending with "phile" as something sexual (or negative)?
Would you think of words that you don't know, ending with "phile" as something sexual (or negative)?
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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When I hear "audiophile", I truly never think about licking the banana-plugs, so nope.
There are also some popular YT channels like Computerphile and Numberphile
to be frank, "Numberwang" is more titillating than "Numberphile"
That’s Numberwang!
Let's rotate the board!
Cinephile is another common term.
Yeah another user mentioned those two too. The interesting part is that they have used a mixture of english and greek. For example Numberphile uses the enlish word "number" instead of the proper Arithmophile. I wonder if this is to make it easier to understand
The reason that a linguist would give is that -phile has become a somewhat productive suffix in English, so it is not constrained to Greek roots.