Poll: A new word

[Professor James]

I have created the word mispioiny(mis-pi-oy-ny) which means the hatred of children. This isn't just some random gibberish I made up. I used the Greek word misos which means hatred and the word paioi(translated from παιδ&#943 which means child. So do you think this word should become official or did I translate wrong or do you think it does not have enough meaning to be a word.

Edit:I decided to change the word to misopaidy

 

[FalloutJack]

Create a word for the hatred of idiots or fools and we'll talk.

 

[shadyh8er]

Dude! Contact the dudes who update the dictionary ASAP!

 

[zehydra]

there's really no such thing as "official" english. Just start using it and get other people to start using it, and eventually, if it catches on, it'll become a new word. If that happens, I'll give you a cookie. Like, in real life.

 

[JoJo]

If you can also get it diagnosed as a mental disorder, then yes.

*raises flame shield*

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

Isn't the common "difficult (presumably ancient) word" for "children", Ped-something? Like Pediatrician, or Pedagogy, or.....that... other word, that starts like that. You know the one?

Then again I'm no etymologist, so the fuck do I know. That's my OT as well, I guess.

Come to think of it, I haven't seen Legendary Gamer online in a long time. I wonder what's up with him....

 

[Phlakes]

παιδί sound more like "paidi", so I'd use something like that. Maybe base it off of misogyny (μισώ (misó&#817 for hate, γυναίκα (gynaíka) for woman), so something simple like misopaidy (mee-so-PAY-dee) or misopady (mi-SAW-pa-dee) would be a little more logical and closer to the roots.

snip.

Yep, the prefix is ped-, which comes from what I have in my post

 

[Phlakes]

Sorry, double post.

 

[Raven's Nest]

Misopedony would be an alternative but add it on urban dictionary and it becomes official...

 

[yamitami]

If by that you mean Misopedia which is already a word, then yes.

 

[Raven's Nest]

If that word were to somehow become official, there will be as much annoying crap about its spelling and pronunciation as there is about the use of "your" and "you're."

There is however, a difference between pedantry and being appropriately correct...

 

[Anarchemitis]

Amblivalence and exsplendid are words that don't exist and yet I still use them.

 

[spartan231490]

Create a word for the hatred of idiots or fools and we'll talk.

This, and you might be better off with roots that are Latin or German. Very few of our words are straight from Greek, mostly the scientific ones if memory serves.

 

[spartan231490]

Amblivalence and exsplendid are words that don't exist and yet I still use them.

Ambivalence is a word. See here: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ambivalence

 

[spartan231490]

If by that you mean Misopedia which is already a word, then yes.

You sir, win. /thread

 

[FalloutJack]

Create a word for the hatred of idiots or fools and we'll talk.

This, and you might be better off with roots that are Latin or German. Very few of our words are straight from Greek, mostly the scientific ones if memory serves.

Oh my god, it's The Futurological Congress!

 

[Raven's Nest]

If that word were to somehow become official, there will be as much annoying crap about its spelling and pronunciation as there is about the use of "your" and "you're."

There is however, a difference between pedantry and being appropriately correct...

There's nothing wrong with using correct grammar and spelling or correcting grammar and spelling in an academic or professional setting, but if someone types, in a casual and anonymous setting, "your wrong," it is unnecessary and irritating to everyone to start shit about it, especially since the person who made the error won't bother correcting themselves because a stranger told him to.

With a word like the one being suggested, the nitpickers will get annoyed by everyone misspelling and mispronouncing it, and the rest of us will be annoyed by the nitpickers nitpicking.

Agreed.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Amblivalence and exsplendid are words that don't exist and yet I still use them.

Ambivalence is a word. See here: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ambivalence

Amblivalence isn't.