Talk:-phil-

message: if it's okay to ask, what do you call the love for inanimate objects? Folo4 (talk) 09:26, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: fetishism - see the bit at the bottom about Sigmund Freud.--Publunch (talk) 20:15, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: What makes this topic encyclopedic? Is it even an article? In my opinion it doesn't belong here. Maybe in the wiktionary.·Maunus· ·ƛ· 08:14, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Encyclopedic?

message: It is strange that philia has come to mean what eros meant to the ancients.  It is quite commendable that
a parent or a teacher should feel philia toward a child, though if they start to feel eros, there is a problem.
I'd be pleased to know how this twist came about.
--Publunch (talk) 20:15, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Etymological question

message: I find it rather strange that necrophilia, according to this article, is hobby for someone. Hopefully it is just a sick joke. Siim (talk) 09:30, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Necrophilia as a hobby

message: Article says "phile" is antonymic to "phobe." I dispute the assertion. Phobe is irrational fear, not hatred or dislike (though the latter often follows the former.) Can anyone offer up the Greek for hatred/dislike?
--TheEditrix2 21:06, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Phile/Phobe 

message: Words ending in "-phile" and "-philia" are nouns, meaning respectively "a person who likes X / a substance attracted to X" and "attraction to X". Words ending in "-philic" are adjectives that describe a person or substance who or which is attracted to X. I've just adjusted the defs in Chemistry and Physics, but the distinction needs to be observed throughout.
--Thnidu (talk) 02:59, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  adjectives vs. nouns 

message: again. A slash is a space saver, not a space creator. I'd change them all to commas if I had the energy. Rothorpe (talk) 22:56, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I've also seen slashes inaccurately used to indicate synonyms, as in "dogs/canines". So, I agree with Rothorpe's assertion and removed the slashes on both sides of the equations. I removed random capitals on the left side and capitalized the first letter on the right side where it was lacking. I'm not sure I understand all of the definitions, though. If someone does, perhaps you could make them more easily understood. Thank you, Wordreader (talk) 19:28, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Many thanks for replacing the hideous spaced slashes with gentle commas. Rothorpe (talk) 19:39, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  The accursed spaced slash 

message: Should paraphilias that end with "philia" be added here? AbsolutelyHuman (talk) 10:32, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I should think so. Paraphilia links to this article.♥ L'Origine du monde ♥ ♥ Talk♥  13:35, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Have created a stub section, linking to *List of paraphilias and paraphilia.♥ L'Origine du monde ♥ ♥ Talk♥  13:44, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paraphilias 

message: The word Turophilia does not appear here, although it does attract a redirection to [-phil-] when searched for.  Just saying. 124.171.159.133 (talk) 02:57, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Turophilia 

message: This article really ought to explain - or, at the very least, ADDRESS - the semantic difference between the prefix philo- and the suffix -phile/-philia. rather than, as is now, simply listing various words as examples.  if all else fails, then, I suppose, request attention from an expert editor? (an expert in Greek etymologies, thereby). ex.: i came across the word "philosemitic" the other day, which struck me as odd: for, meseemeth, it ought to be "semitophile" or such like (which i had never heard before either). accordingly, in this article the word is "judeophile", (which is also unfamiliar, which would seem to imply this is a topic that very rarely gets discussed - although its literal antonyn, judeophobic, is equally unfamiliar, unlike its defacto antonym, antisemitic). anyway...cheers :) Firejuggler86 (talk) 10:15, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Failure to explain the difference between the prefix and suffix 

message: Why? The country was named after Philip II of Spain. The fact that it starts with Phil- is a mere coincidence. Sure, Philip comes from the Greek meaning "fond of horses", but the direct etymology pf the name has nothing to do with horses. Dilbert08 01:30, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Philippines in "Prefix Phil-"