Does Ms Warsi Have Difficulty With English?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44311092
phobia = fear, we are not afraid we are wary of their tendencies toward terrorism.

[TheChair]

Maybe it's time you learned a bit about the English language, TTT. Here's something to get you started: "The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g. acidophobia), and in medicine to describe hypersensitivity to a stimulus, usually sensory (e.g. photophobia). In common usage, they also form words that describe dislike or hatred of a particular thing or subject (e.g. homophobia). The suffix is antonymic to -phil-."

[ToraToraTora]

so phobia = fear, I said that.

[Zacs-Master]

Maybe if people stopped trying to blow us up in its name, it might get a better rap?

[ToraToraTora]

perhaps thechair should really be thekursi

[Zacs-Master]

Leave him alone. He’s very good at explaining what you already know.

[-Talbot-]

Is saying I do not like and have no time for Islam ...Islamaphobic?

[ToraToraTora]

no I believe that is called "sensible" talbot.

[Zacs-Master]

It is if you have no knowledge of it, Talbot. Do you have a ‘religious contributor’ badge?

[-Talbot-]

Well I'm also not keen on Christianity and have no time for it...what's the word for that?

[Zacs-Master]

Discerning.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Thanks for that Chair.

New knowledge to all of us.

And the final reference to the antonym was a beautiful Parthian shot.


PS: I've never been able to use the Greek keyboard and get all the (optional) diacritics and the necessary aspirants and subscripts. How do you do that?

[Zacs-Master]

Well, you...........



Stop being pretentious for a start

[Canary42]

The IRA tried (and were more successful) blowing us up in the Seventies - but I didn't notice an enormous groundswell of Roman Catholic Phobia, or Irish Phobia. So perhaps nowadays we are being selective based on bigotry rather than facts.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Did read methods for doing all of the above, but seemed more difficult than Jennifer Lawrence dodging Harvey Weinstein in a telephone booth.

[ToraToraTora]

you mean hug a jihaddi canary?

[sp1814]

Have always hated the 'phobia' suffix, because it's not quite right.

By mislabelling bigotry as 'a fear', it makes it sound as if we should have sympathy with those suffering from it.

And that's not right. If someone is agoraphobic you can feel sympathy for them, because their condition is debilitating and primarily affects them.

Someone who is bigoted doesn't need or deserve the sympathy that the phobic suffix suggests.

...because they're jerks.

[Hazi-Hammenuhoth]

Islamophobia is an term invented by the liberal media used to describe anyone who criticises Islam. At very best it's a lazy term. I am concerned of the evil doctrine contained in the Koran, critical of it's ideology and worried about the seemingly mass complacency of politicians. Am I Islamophobic? I don't know. Do I care? No.

[-Talbot-]

So everyone on here (and there's many) who have confessed to disliking football...they're all bigots?