Slash and homosexuality

[ER <ression@hotmail.com>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Sushi <sushi at s...> wrote:
> 
> >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


Well ... my 1982 Concise OED clearly defines homosexual as meaning a 
person "who is sexually attracted only by persons of his or her own 
sex". So I'd say Queer-as-John was wrong. Unless usage has dictated a 
change since then, which of course is always possible. Who's got a 
recent dictionary?

Still as somebody once said, "Don't be sorry, my dear sir, for 
nothing could upset me today!"

ER