Talk:Noviophobia
To do
- add reference from his letter to Nintendo Power here --Champthom 06:29, 10 February 2009 (CET)
- Get a complete list of references he's made to noviophobia - it's even in the autism papers for starters. --Champthom 10:32, 2 December 2009 (CET)
Origin of the "Novio" part
Chris might have always called it Noiophobia and never Novio. I did edit the ED article last year (around August/September 2008) and it had a section on Noiophobia, and I added the caption along the lins of "Chris being retarded didn't realise that Novio means boyfriend, not Noio". Unless he read the article at a later date and actually did start using it. So I may be inadvertently responsible for this mistake.--UncleBastard 08:51, 23 October 2009 (CEST)
- on CWCipedia he calls it "Noviophobia" three times, which makes the spelling here almost certainly a typo. while it is possible that he actually did use the term "Noiophobia" because he's retarded, it seems pretty unlikely(especially since it seems most of the stuff on CWCipedia is copy-pasted from old essays and shit) --cogsdev/vedsgoc 14:15, 23 October 2009 (CEST)
Removing of "Agoriphobia"
I took the liberty of removing the part which claims the word "agoriphobia" would be the correct term. This is wrong firstly because compound words in Greek aren't just combinations of two words but are formed using the connective vowel omicron (e.g. the word glossophobia is a combination of glossa and phobia). Agoraphobia is only an exception to this rule, wherein the omicron gets contracted. The correct compound between agori and phobia would thus be agorophobia. Nonetheless, secondly, agori wouldn't be used for a medical term because the word only exists in Modern Greek, and its use to mean "boyfriend" is a colloquialism. For medical terminology, an Ancient Greek word would be used; in this case, probably ἐραστής (herastes), meaning a male dominant lover. Thus, the "correct" term would be Herastophobia.
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