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cwnythtoday at 5:50 AM2 repliesview on HN

Helio- is actually "sun", not "hole", and it's Greek, not Latin, but I 100% agree with you: it's pointless technical vocabulary that only serves to obfuscate. I think in this particular case, it's just some internet neologism (which is a good word, since coinage can mean a couple different things), made based on analogies with older phobias. For those of us who know Latin and Greek, though, all we can really do is shrug at the eagerness to make the clumsiest words possible.


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antonvstoday at 6:29 AM

The translation of the name appears to be intended as “black star fear”.

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bradortoday at 6:13 AM

What would be the correct latin/greek word for it?

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