Since when "hom-o" became a bad word?
By DJ
@Daljinder (23193)
Bangalore, India
February 6, 2017 2:17pm CST
Am I missing something here?
I was just typing a comment and when I clicked the send button, myLot showed up a message to "Fix bad word 'hom-o'." I had written hom-o sapiens which is a scientific name for humans.
THAT is beyond my comprehension. Do English native speakers consider it a bad word? I am aware "hom-o" is used in context to homosexuals or something? Is it the reason?
English is not my first language so if any of you can explain it to me, I will appreciate it. Thank you in advance! 
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17 responses
@topffer (42155)
• France
9 Feb 17
@Daljinder Is myLot only for animals, that is the question
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@Daljinder (23193)
• Bangalore, India
9 Feb 17
@topffer In that case, humans are animals too 
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@GoAskAlice (5865)
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6 Feb 17
The filter is automatic, and perhaps a bit over zealous 
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@GoAskAlice (5865)
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9 Feb 17
@Daljinder the fix may take a bit to fan out to everyone, but we think we solved the problem for good now.
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@Daljinder (23193)
• Bangalore, India
8 Feb 17
@GoAskAlice Are you all still working on the photo issue? Because we have been noticing that photos still disappear at random intervals. Then show up after sometime. Some of the profile images went missing too.
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@infatuatedbby (94909)
• United States
8 Feb 17
Yes that word is usually avoided.
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@infatuatedbby (94909)
• United States
9 Feb 17
@Daljinder Yep some will be very offended =)
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@Daljinder (23193)
• Bangalore, India
8 Feb 17
@infatuatedbby I didn't know that. 
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@Daljinder (23193)
• Bangalore, India
9 Feb 17
@infatuatedbby I will have to keep that in mind for future. Good to know before I ended up making a blunder. 
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@Daljinder (23193)
• Bangalore, India
12 Feb 17
@Jlyn10 I am many things! For example: I am a stalker too 
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@Daljinder (23193)
• Bangalore, India
8 Feb 17
@Jlyn10 It wouldn't accept the right spelling so I modified it to trick the filter. 
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
6 Feb 17
It isn't a nice way of phrasing something....and not looked kindly upon.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
9 Feb 17
@Daljinder Don't worry about it, I am sure you were not being mean.
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@Daljinder (23193)
• Bangalore, India
8 Feb 17
@AbbyGreenHill Good to know! Better to know than offend anyone accidentally. Although I used it innocently lol
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@Daljinder (23193)
• Bangalore, India
9 Feb 17
@AbbyGreenhill LOL no I didn;t even use it like that. I was writing homosapiens separately.
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@Daljinder (23193)
• Bangalore, India
9 Feb 17
@JustBhem You are welcome! We learned something together. 
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@Daljinder (23193)
• Bangalore, India
9 Feb 17
@maezee I know right? So, not accepted in homosapiens but what about homophobes?
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@allknowing (153529)
• India
6 Feb 17
As @MALUSE has explained it is the software that helps myLot and so there is nothing one can do but just change the word.
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@Daljinder (23193)
• Bangalore, India
9 Feb 17
@allknowing The perplexity of the filter's working lol
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@Daljinder (23193)
• Bangalore, India
8 Feb 17
@jstory07 I didn't think it as bad either until I was told the reason. 
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@Tampa_girl7 (54716)
• United States
8 Feb 17
It's a mystery as to how these things happen. 
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@Daljinder (23193)
• Bangalore, India
8 Feb 17
@Tampa_girl7 Yeah Admin said he doesn't know either. 
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@pgntwo (22405)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
9 Feb 17
@Daljinder So it goes. People and groups help themselves to words that once we're innocuous...
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
11 Feb 17
@Daljinder No I meant homosapien. I thought that was one word not two. I learned something new. I see the red underline indicating it's not a word.
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@Daljinder (23193)
• Bangalore, India
8 Feb 17
@just4him The one word was not accepted by the filter. I have to ask the question about this word so I wrote it as using the "-" to by pass the filter.
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@Daljinder (23193)
• Bangalore, India
8 Feb 17
@JudyEv Yep! They are pretty weird in their selection and perplexing at times
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@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
7 Feb 17
Maybe you should just put the whole word. English is not my first language too.
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@Daljinder (23193)
• Bangalore, India
8 Feb 17
@acelawrites The full word is not accepted by the filter at myLot. It asks to fix it.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60812)
• Perth, Australia
13 Mar 17
@Daljinder I've always seen it as a shorter version for "homosexual." I am not gay so I can't sit here and say "It's not offensive" because I don't fully understand it. If someone called me a hom-o, I wouldn't think much of it. But if you said it to someone who was gay, maybe it is offensive.
But as someone who is not gay, I don't see why it needs to be an offensive word. It means to be gay.....so where's the insult? Where is the incorrect fact? Why must so many words be used as an offensive term when the original word isn't? I don't understand.
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