Another senseless hunting accident

[YCCMB]

Double post.

[Russethouse]

[quote user="idun"]

It's bad enough in english that the lovely word 'gay', has been half inched to describe homosexuals these days, so it has lost it's original general usuage, but at least 'gay' is a pleasant word.

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I agree ;-)

[nomoss]

I first heard the word pédéraste in the '60's. It was quite clearly explained to me that this referred to a homosexual man. The terms "pédale" and "de la pédale" were also used at that time.

According to my OED, a pederast is someone who performs sodomy with a boy, while a paedophile is simply attracted to children in general.

 

 

[YCCMB]

Indeed, as I said (but without the "a" in paedophile, for which I have been formally chastised) on the previous page.

[nomoss]

[quote user="You can call me Betty"]Indeed, as I said (but without the "a" in paedophile, for which I have been formally chastised) on the previous page.
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NO YCCMB, you keep doing this, I did not repeat what you said.

[quote user="You"]Not really a topic for Christmas morning but I needed something to pass the time and while away my insomnia, and I have been wondering why English uses pedophile and French uses pédéraste (as does Polish, I found out some years ago...and, I suspect, many other languages). Turns out that the former implies a sexual attraction to children, and the latter defines someone who has sex with children.
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[quote user="I"]

According to my OED, a pederast is someone who performs sodomy with a boy, while a paedophile is simply attracted to children in general.

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I do hope you know the difference between sex and sodomy[:D]