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Comment author: ewang 03 January 2013 04:00:48PM 1 point [-]

(And FYI, that’s the proper spelling: "homosexual" is common but wrong, because omo- is the proper Greek prefix.)

Comment author: fubarobfusco 03 January 2013 10:36:01PM 2 points [-]

Cute.

Alas, "homosexual" — like "polyamory", "microgravity", "electroconduction", and "mammogram" — is a Greek-Latin compound.

("Homophile" was current once, but no longer; "polyphilia" is sometimes reported, "multiamory" not so much; "microbaricity" would imply vacuum rather than freefall; "anbaroconduction" unreported outside certain fantasy universes; and a "mammoscript" sounds like the upstairs equivalent of a Vagina Monologue.)

Comment author: MixedNuts 03 January 2013 10:42:47PM 2 points [-]
Comment author: prase 03 January 2013 07:14:16PM -1 points [-]

ομο-

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 03 January 2013 08:42:24PM 2 points [-]

No, it is ὁμός, which is properly transliterated homos.