To: LexBaird
Homophobic: Fear of Mankind (the real meaning)
This is a common error. You are confusing Greek and Latin usage in neologisms.
The prefix, "Homo" here comes from Greek and means "same" or "similar". (This homogenuous).
A hater of mankind is an "Anthrophobe"
147 posted on
08/03/2006 6:48:16 PM PDT by
rmlew
(I'm a Goldwater Republican... Don Goldwater 2006!)
To: rmlew; LexBaird
This is a common error. You are confusing Greek and Latin usage in neologisms. You remind me of what H.W. Fowler said in Modern English Usage: "'Pleistocene, pliocene, miocene' are regrettable barbarisms."
:-)
167 posted on
08/03/2006 10:57:59 PM PDT by
Gondring
(If "Conservatives" now want to "conserve" our Constitution away, then I must be a Preservative!)
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