<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 7:19 PM, Jason Resch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jasonresch@gmail.com" target="_blank">jasonresch@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">My friend suggested the word "misoxeny".<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.encyclo.co.uk/meaning-of-misoxeny" target="_blank">http://www.encyclo.co.uk/meaning-of-misoxeny</a> "the hatred of strangers"<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">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. <br><br> Problem is: how do we make any neologism popular? bill w</div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Jason</div></font></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span></span><span>-. Latin offers 'peregrinus' for alien.</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="auto"><blockquote type="cite"><span><span>Maybe not workable.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Ideas?"</span><br><br></span><span>I would suggest -odia. From Odium.</span><br><span></span><br><span>It works for some words (Islamodia) but not really for others (Xenodia, Xeno-odia?)</span><br><span></span><br><span>Although it might not be grammatically sound to use it like that, I'm not learned enough to know.</span><br></blockquote><div><br></div>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.<div><br></div><div>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. ;)<br><br><div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">http://author.to/DanUst</font></a></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><span class="">_______________________________________________<br>
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