It reflects an attempt to stick to Greek ways of expressing things.
Tom Send a noteboard - 23/10/2011 02:39:53 AM
Hemosexuality: being attracted only to menstruating women.
That would be haemorrhoeophilia, despite the fact that hemorrhoids usually have nothing to do with menstruation.
Wouldn't this really be meno(rrhea)philia? Come to think of it, given what happens with the menses here, menolagnia sounds better still.
rrhea vs. rrhoea, I get. But rrhoeo, I don't. Or take anni, annu, and enni, for example. I understand the meaning, but I don't know why the vowels change. Does it have to do with rules in the source language? Reintroduction of the same root but over a long period of time, indicating a change in the source language? Something else entirely?
Meno- is more common in medical literature. The best classic term I could find was haimorrhoia. The Greek rules on compound words have to do with declension of nouns and adjectives. So, for example, haima is blood but the genitive form is haimatos, so a lot of compounds (but not all) use the form without the final s. in this particular case, though, it doesn't use that form.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
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ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Why homosexuality is wrong.
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What's really wrong with homosexuality
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There is female homosexuality too you know... *NM*
- 21/10/2011 06:07:04 PM
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By that logic, then, there's nothing wrong with homoeroticism 
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I remember reading something about how people tried to call it "Homophilia"
- 21/10/2011 07:34:47 PM
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Probably because it sounds like pedophilia :o *NM*
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It definitely took in some languages - old people still tend to use the term here. *NM*
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Different takes on the word:
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Re: Different takes on the word:
- 21/10/2011 09:59:00 PM
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"Being attracted to" is properly -philia.
- 22/10/2011 05:09:06 AM
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A purely trivial point one way or the other
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It reflects an attempt to stick to Greek ways of expressing things.
- 23/10/2011 02:39:53 AM
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If you try to attach the male connections of most joysticks it does not even sort of work.
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My goodness you talk a lot 
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You just noticed that? 
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Well, I hadn't been around much. I read that post.Then I read a parody featuring you.
- 25/10/2011 08:06:09 PM
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Heh, well that post was kinda terse for me, again, given my complex conflicted thoughts on the topic
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