asking for posterity's sake: are saphe and vesbian synonyms?
if going by the original definition, they seem to be. both appear to mean “being a lesbian but in a nonbinary / genderqueer / etc. way.” the only main difference i can see is that vesbian was made to fit in with terms like gai and strayt, as an equivalent for lesbians. but like, that’s mostly just semantics and has nothing to do with any kind of actual different experience between the two. i don’t really feel entirely comfortable saying “my term and someone else’s term are synonyms!” without the other coiner also having a say on it, though. i’m also slightly confused on the fact that their term does seem to come from “sapphic,” but only describes it as being for lesbians. but you’d have to ask them about that for more clarity, not me!
Adding onto that, the wiki says saphe "unites" the two terms, but the post itself says it INCLUDES those terms. They also misspell it as sapphe... LOL
omg i didn’t see that part. fuuuuuuck. 😭
been looking through some of your old terms and i was wondering - is it okay for me to call navicoric something else (naviaesic maybe) to avoid misusing coric?
i actually already changed it to navichoric at one point, because it’s a kenochoric gender anyways, and an easy fix. i don’t think -aesic would work for it since it’s not an aesthetigender (if i understand that suffix right?) so using the new term is probably the way to go.
here is the archived (and updated) coining post i made with its proper name, if you want/need it
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I think it would be fine to make an actual post for nilauto tbh! So long as you have credit on it
when things get recognition, you lose control over what happens. even if i included direct credit to the term it’s based on, after so many reposts, possible posts on wikis and other sites, through the game of telephone it could lose that credit extremely fast. i’ve seen it happen to other people, so i feel like it’d be in very poor taste to do when the term is so derivative of something else. yes, the term is really useful for me. yes, it might be useful for others- that’s why i bother posting about it at all (besides just having a place to talk about it.) but i would implode in on myself if it ended up getting too much traction and all those fears i mentioned came true. i would feel horrible forever and then melt and simmer like an egg on a hotplate. so i keep it all untagged and on the down-low so it stays small, and never even remotely comes close to “well-known.” since. you know. it’s mostly just for me, anyways.
it’s possible i’m being waaaaaay too paranoid about it. and that it’s totally fine to do with credit. i do have very, very bad paranoia and moral ocd. but i’d rather be safe (and respectful) than sorry down the line.
are you going to eventually repost all of your old stuff?
Oh god, I highly doubt she’d be able to do that! Honestly, I don’t think anybody in our system is up for the task of re-posting everything in their own remade posts.
But I think our host said she would like to repost a good deal of her old stuff. Mainly the stuff she wants around again- if she sees it, and was like “oh yeah that was cool,” she might make a new post for it eventually. It is not on a schedule, she isn’t exactly bustling to make it happen or anything- it’s more of a “oh I just saw that and I want it to have a live link again, so I’m gonna do that now!” sporadic type of thing!
You can always ask her to repost something, too! I won’t guarantee that she absolutely will, but I think in 99% of cases she would have no issue with it. : )
still think the plural of kenochord should be kenochorus tbh
i think that’s cool, but i also think it’d confuse people, especially since “chorus” isn’t a plural word on its own. for instance, kenochorim is sometimes used to describe multiple kenochoric people, but that’s because -im is a plural suffix, like how seraphim is. honestly for the time being, i think kenochords is just the most easy way to word it, though i’m not opposed to there being a potential plural term later down the road