[HPFGU-OTChatter] Slash and homosexuality

[Sushi]

>Actually, "homo" means man. Which excludes lesbians. And, going back to the
>Grecolatinate roots, could be argued to include anyone who loves men. But I
>digress, and will assume that whenever you say "homosexual" you mean "same
>sex attracted".


         Technically, you're both right.  However, "homo" meaning man or 
him is Latin, and "homo" meaning same is bastardized Greek (homogenization 
is another word to use this root).  Since the opposite of homosexual is 
heterosexual, and heterosexual's prefix is from the Greek "etero", it can 
be presumed (since the guys who came up with these terms back in the 
Victorian era were real sticklers, and despite that wonderful line posted 
here yesterday it was certainly a bastardization of Greek) that 
"homosexual" has a prefix from "omo".  As far as I'm aware, the modern 
Green words for homosexual and heterosexual and omophulophilos and 
eterophulophilikos.

         Just don't ask me what's up with the "philos" and "philikos" 
endings.  I'm better at research than Greek. ;)

Sushi, pedant for hire


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