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meekah@lemmy.world 8 months agoHumans are great at pattern detection. So putting patterns into our language helps us understand things intuitively more easily.
Comment on Help me remember a "back-to-back chaise longue" from TV or film
meekah@lemmy.world 8 months agoHumans are great at pattern detection. So putting patterns into our language helps us understand things intuitively more easily.
morphballganon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m pretty sure someone who appreciates the nuance of a pattern emerging in 1811 is past the point of needing a consistent naming convention to identify what aluminum is.
meekah@lemmy.world 8 months ago
you know how humans make more, smaller humans who know less about this world than we do? yeah, those are the ones benefiting the most from this kinda stuff, not us.
morphballganon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And those smaller humans have no appreciation for whether something was discovered after 1811 or before. So if you’re going to be prescriptive about the spelling of aluminum, you may as well advocate for the same change in carbon, nitrogen, neon etc.