tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post8336433269482253812..comments2024-03-26T18:01:57.609+00:00Comments on Inky Fool: Not a BibliophileM.H. Forsythhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464964455944509750noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-81007104672695427742011-12-30T00:39:50.710+00:002011-12-30T00:39:50.710+00:00Biblioflunk has a good ring to it .... even if it&...Biblioflunk has a good ring to it .... even if it's not exactly a book hater, sounds more like someone who's rubbish at reading. Thanks, Taglet, I feel sure I'll use that one.Liz Twohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08649269172871816589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-5696229032473322902011-12-23T16:46:40.508+00:002011-12-23T16:46:40.508+00:00Aha !! That's so illuminating as well as poeti...Aha !! That's so illuminating as well as poetical, Mark. Now I'm getting a feel for the context...not about books per se at all then, I'd say? If he was a collector of china ornaments, the railer-against-clutter-that-is-preventing-me-from-achieving-my-goal would be a china ornament disliker... <br />In our household, my father was a 'piler' and my mother a 'filer'. Never the twain would meet. She was at war with his 'little piles' throughout our childhoods. 'Our' childhoods? Their six daughters - spilt, as genes/memes would have it - between pilers (4) and filers (2)...with me as the eldest and a piler.<br />As for book dislikers...nothing has quite gone 'Yes, that's THE one' yet...so I had been exploring adjectives: 'biblioaverse' / 'book-intolerant'...however, in a last pre-Christmas imaginative fling - 'bibliosnob' and 'bibliosnub' came to me - hence why the marriage of one of each to each other has all the intensity of a warzone...<br />Thanks for a really splendid thread.tagletnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-5448905081702065752011-12-22T11:59:14.781+00:002011-12-22T11:59:14.781+00:00"Texan""Texan"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-7852320303519427422011-12-21T23:01:44.371+00:002011-12-21T23:01:44.371+00:00Ok, taglet here is more, straight from the foal...Ok, taglet here is more, straight from the foal's mouth:<br /><br />Regarding the truth of the matter, it came out as follows: my mother wailing over piles of books in my father's study, the sight of which caused her disgust and misery, and calling down a moratorium on him buying any more. Her reasons were:<br /> <br />1. The books he bought were rubbish.<br /> <br />2. He didn't read them.<br /> <br />3. (The kicker) There was no space left on any of the existing shelves, resulting in the books forming towers on the floor which interfered with her ongoing war against moth in the carpet.<br /> <br />So really no new story. A leader in pursuit of war despising the books that stand in their way.<br /><br />[end] Rather poetical, don't you think. My corespondent continues:<br /><br />It's not as though there aren't enough out there now, or haven't been plenty throughout history. Is it vanity on behalf of the book? Or is this the book defending itself, using the most devastating weapon it has against its enemies: the act of denying them a name?<br /><br />And then:<br /><br />There should be - and probably is - a word for this kind of strategy: trying to ward off / defuse the power of / deny the existence of something hostile by refusing to acknowledge or name it.<br /> <br />[end] Which only seems to deepen the dark linguistic conundrum.M.H. Forsythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01464964455944509750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-31347822344090963262011-12-21T22:47:34.904+00:002011-12-21T22:47:34.904+00:00Although attached to my own modest biblioflout, 45...Although attached to my own modest biblioflout, 451'er, bibliokote, and odiolibri each strike me as inspired. Perhaps we need a range of subtly variant words to heap upon the graded ranks of the bibliophobic--like the apocryphal range of Innuit words for snow.--dlsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-45729337983528171362011-12-21T16:21:09.584+00:002011-12-21T16:21:09.584+00:00Brilliant, nemryn ! I love learning new words...sh...Brilliant, nemryn ! I love learning new words...should have thought to look if a definition already existed, of course...many thanks.<br />Andrea, on the 451ers: could lead to confusion between the book-embody-ers and the book-burners on this one maybe? Rabbit's friend and relation clearly isn't an embody-er...but a burner ?tagletnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-79960733338858807572011-12-21T15:55:02.300+00:002011-12-21T15:55:02.300+00:00taglet: a clarifiction is an explanation that'...taglet: a clarifiction is an explanation that's meant to clarify things, but actually makes them more complicated.nemrynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05567528569551474414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-86341858663695861382011-12-21T12:51:19.170+00:002011-12-21T12:51:19.170+00:00What about a 451'er, along the lines of 49'...What about a 451'er, along the lines of 49'ers but after the Fahrenheit?Andrea Kirkbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16830930431733160450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-58694513813032372112011-12-21T11:56:26.162+00:002011-12-21T11:56:26.162+00:00Mark...It strikes me that, in pursuit of 'le m...Mark...It strikes me that, in pursuit of 'le mot juste', (and a very enjoyable pursuit it is proving to be!), we need more clarification from your friend. [Digression: I wrote 'clarifiction' and then, in correcting it, thought there should be a definition for 'clarifiction': a taradiddle dressed up to sound true, perhaps? Is the relative a book-hater? A book-fearer? Or a book-disliker? And please can your friend supply any further detail? Dislikes getting them as presents at Christmas? Breaks out in an allergic rash if s/he sees one? Can't walk past a bookshop without having a panic attack? More precision please(and special thanks for setting this hare running).tagletnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-46391556242252700862011-12-21T11:38:19.538+00:002011-12-21T11:38:19.538+00:00Misolibrist?Misolibrist?Maddienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-83612669400271546002011-12-21T10:49:18.613+00:002011-12-21T10:49:18.613+00:00Let us see what the Rocci Greek-Italian dictionary...Let us see what the Rocci Greek-Italian dictionary tells us about hatred.<br />For a love of symmetry, if you have a word that is derived from the ancient Greek like bibliophile, I would stick to the Greek in shaping its opposite.<br />Hatred is "misos" (like in "misanthrope", as of course you already know), but also kòtos and ekhtra. So you could go with any of these. Bibliokote, perhaps? Or misobibliac?Tazio Bettinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08787163622198886309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-49972964451087281002011-12-20T23:45:15.182+00:002011-12-20T23:45:15.182+00:00antibiblio ??
odiolibri ??antibiblio ??<br />odiolibri ??Markhttp://www.dbasetech.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-13313768586288896012011-12-20T22:58:36.338+00:002011-12-20T22:58:36.338+00:00I can't think of many bibliophobes, but "...I can't think of many bibliophobes, but "the preacher" of Ecclesiastes said "Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body" (Ecc 12:!2)<br /><br />Great to hear the Etymologicon read aloud on R4 Book of the Week this week - it works really well. Hugh Dennis is doing a good job of it, and I like the theme music - I heard it through the grapevine!Tom Cunliffehttp://www.acommonreader.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-69081101673650154932011-12-20T21:27:04.584+00:002011-12-20T21:27:04.584+00:00I should just like to point out that most, if not ...I should just like to point out that most, if not all, Kindle (and other e-reader) owners rather like books; it's almost a requirement. Bibliomania is an economic pre-requisite to purchasing such a thing.The Antipodean coughed politely andnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-50103957857996828812011-12-20T20:59:15.887+00:002011-12-20T20:59:15.887+00:00...as does Kindle, in a Skoobish kind of way....as does Kindle, in a Skoobish kind of way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-48368742345285751982011-12-20T18:07:56.508+00:002011-12-20T18:07:56.508+00:00Biblioflout has some resonance.--dlsBiblioflout has some resonance.--dlsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-13636249135288795072011-12-20T16:38:24.726+00:002011-12-20T16:38:24.726+00:00...or is it just that the poor relative prefers th......or is it just that the poor relative prefers the Kindle or iPad?Lila Das Guptahttp://www.olfactoryevents.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-19691152214938879592011-12-20T16:37:11.518+00:002011-12-20T16:37:11.518+00:00What's wrong with Philistine?!What's wrong with Philistine?!Lila Das Guptahttp://www.olfactoryevents.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-53701919234822069252011-12-20T15:57:33.562+00:002011-12-20T15:57:33.562+00:00What about 'bibliofunk' or 'biblioflun...What about 'bibliofunk' or 'biblioflunk'?<br />The poor deluded fool about about whom the question is being asked doesn't seem (yet!) motivated enough to BURN books...it's just a mindless opposition to what books are for and what they mean, individually and universally... On second thoughts maybe it should just be 'homo anti-sapiens'...?!Tagletnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-79363459319722110692011-12-20T15:30:35.332+00:002011-12-20T15:30:35.332+00:00On the contrary, much too little. Tis corrected.On the contrary, much too little. Tis corrected.M.H. Forsythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01464964455944509750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-8215132568809324922011-12-20T15:28:23.221+00:002011-12-20T15:28:23.221+00:00Whose, mark, not who's. Too much champagne at ...Whose, mark, not who's. Too much champagne at lunch?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-51369432216875934172011-12-20T15:21:57.694+00:002011-12-20T15:21:57.694+00:00You can always try moulding an adjective with Qin ...You can always try moulding an adjective with Qin Shi Huang (Chinese Emperor who burnt books) but I guess that doesn't trip off the tongue quite as easily. Otherwise, in keeping with political correctness, there's always a Bound-Printed-Matter-Non-Chooser. Or is even this too judgemental?ScribeDollhttp://scribedoll.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com