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

  • Devi@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    I don’t know if this is international but it’s a common joke in British media to use this as a bit of a joke, for example a geeky character might say that they’re a bibliophile, and the dumb character will make it sexual.

    • NightAuthor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      Random dude I was talking to mentioned he was a “heliophile” mid-conversation about weather. Dude thought he was so smart, cuz apparently no one ever knows what he means when he uses that term. He joked about people sort of recoiling at the sound of the word.

      Anyway, I’d heard of helio and phile…. So he likes the sun. Uh, cool.