[ExI] need a new word/suffix

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 7:19 PM, Jason Resch <jasonresch at gmail.com> wrote:

> My friend suggested the word "misoxeny".
>
> http://www.encyclo.co.uk/meaning-of-misoxeny "the hatred of strangers"
>

​I have no problem with any of the suggestions.  Looked up misoxeny in my
OED - fascinating!  All kinds of nonce words with miso- as the prefix.
Just make up your own hate word, like misomiso, if you hate miso.  But then
an ambiguity creeps in when you need a word for hating hate.

  Problem is:  how do we make any neologism popular?  bill w​


>
> Jason
>
> -.  Latin offers 'peregrinus' for alien.
>
>> Maybe not workable.
>>
>> Ideas?"
>>
>> I would suggest -odia. From Odium.
>>
>> It works for some words (Islamodia) but not really for others (Xenodia,
>> Xeno-odia?)
>>
>> Although it might not be grammatically sound to use it like that, I'm not
>> learned enough to know.
>>
>>
>> Nice try, but I think in common speech '-odia' will too easily fail to be
>> distinguished from '-phobia,' especially from inattentive listeners or when
>> there's garbling, noise, etc. it's just too close in sound.
>>
>> The straying of meaning of words and word fragments is nothing new. I'm
>> not losing any sleep over how 'phobia' seems to have an altered meaning in
>> the context of 'xenophobia' and the like. I don't believe there's a big
>> need for a neologism here -- save for folks too obsessed with this stuff. ;)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dan
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