Christ, try reading the posts Gay Thai.
Paedophile means "Children lover". Thats what it means. How you choose to interpret that is your business. (See Humpty Dumpty for more on linguistic relativism).
If you've got half abrain, which is by no means obvious, you'll interpret it as meaning...loves children.
My favorite uses of -phile involve hydro- and electro- and vodka-, so I think it's not something as specific as the other latinizations. I think the semantics of this one are too vague to be meaningfully discussed.
Napoleon Ier wrote:You people need to grow up to be honest.
Neoteny wrote:My favorite uses of -phile involve hydro- and electro- and vodka-, so I think it's not something as specific as the other latinizations. I think the semantics of this one are too vague to be meaningfully discussed.
Since "semantics" MEANS "meaning", I have no idea of what you are talking about.
Sorry, it really annoys me when people say "Oh, thats just semantics" when they clearly HAVE NO IDEA what the word means
Norse wrote:
But, alas, you are all cock munching rent boys, with an IQ that would make my local spaco clinic blush.
Neoteny wrote:My favorite uses of -phile involve hydro- and electro- and vodka-, so I think it's not something as specific as the other latinizations. I think the semantics of this one are too vague to be meaningfully discussed.
Since "semantics" MEANS "meaning", I have no idea of what you are talking about.
Sorry, it really annoys me when people say "Oh, thats just semantics" when they clearly HAVE NO IDEA what the word means
suggs wrote:
Since "semantics" MEANS "meaning", I have no idea of what you are talking about.
Sorry, it really annoys me when people say "Oh, thats just semantics" when they clearly HAVE NO IDEA what the word means
Sorry to pull you up on this one suggs, but clearly he had an idea of what he was talking about, but that does not mean to say he was correct.
Damn you you Commie bastard. Prob a student slacker as well
Yeah fair point. It was the phrase "the semantics of this are to vague to be discussed" that annoyed me.
Because, the meaning of paedophile IS ABSOLUTELY CLEAR- it means child lover.
So how the semantics of that is vague...GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Norse wrote:
But, alas, you are all cock munching rent boys, with an IQ that would make my local spaco clinic blush.
Damn you you Commie bastard. Prob a student slacker as well
Yeah fair point. It was the phrase "the semantics of this are to vague to be discussed" that annoyed me.
Because, the meaning of paedophile IS ABSOLUTELY CLEAR- it means child lover.
So how the semantics of that is vague...GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
The meaning of -phile is what I was referring to, sir. So calm the hell down.
Napoleon Ier wrote:You people need to grow up to be honest.