Would you think of words that you don't know, ending with "phile" as something sexual (or negative)? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by cosmicrookie@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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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[-] phorq@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

I would understand that it just means a connoisseur of something, but you could always change the spelling to "file" to make it more digital-y and even less associated with problematic obsessions.

[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

This is actually interesting! I wanted to use "files" to start with, like "Flower-Files" but the domain was taken. So i thought flowerphiles could be a fun twist. The true word would be Anthophile though, (or Botanophile for plants) and people would not necessarilly know this (this is btw an example and not the actual wordplay that I am working on atm)

[-] NightAuthor@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Could also just double-domain it, anthophile.com && ILikeFlowers.com or something like that. Is there a “flowers” TLD? ILike.flowers

[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

So I only use the anthophile as an examble. It's not that, but I'd rather not share the actual word as I'm sure some jerk will go out and buy both before I decide LOL

It's a good point though! I might consider doing both, although only one can host the actual software and using both would be ineffective brand wise. I think that I have kind of settled on using the English prefix and phile suffix

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