• Dojan@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Phobic in this sense means aversion to/repellant. You don’t think hydrophobic materials are afraid of water, right?

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      Comment removed: subject unfortunately too sensitive to joke about on the internet…

      Second part was: “seriously why is it called ___phobic, doesn’t make sense?”