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• ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I literally took Latin in college for the sole reason that Latin is used in super stupid ways, and my science communication degree would be worth less without that knowledge. Because Latin-base is fully half of the science terms you need to know.

  And my college was super on board with my reasoning. Wish I’d also had the mental capacity for ancient Greek, because that’s literally the other half of naming schemes.

  Ridiculous.

  I’m super into modern scientists giving shit pop culture names. Because holy shit is it ever more memorable than some random Latin/greek bullshit.

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  • oo1@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Strange that ‘classics’ are taught mostly in the poshest schools. It’s rare for elites to want to preserve any power they have and make it inaccessible to oiks. /s

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• Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well, what other language should be used? Latin is the language of science because there’s no way we’d ever agree on which alive language to use.

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  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I didn’t say it was a bad system or that we need to change it: I said I hate it.

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    • Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fair enough haha

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Um English? It’s the international language and language of research, though some may not like hearing that.

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    • Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      English is only the lingua franca for now, but that, as well as the English language, will inevitably change.

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      • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        English might change drastically so much that we change words entirely (so old abbreviations don’t match new words), so let’s just go with the guaranteed dead language where abbreviations already don’t line up. Yeah I can’t agree with that logic.

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    • zarathustrad@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The whole point of using a “dead” language is that languages change over time and scientists once had the foresight to attempt making their works more universal over both multiple languages and over time.

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Let’s rename everything every century or so. It should make things easier.

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Esperanto, the second language of the international laborer /hj

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    • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I unironically kinda wish that would take off. The concept of a super simple bridge language is great.

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• oo1@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can you give an eggsample?

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  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Couple common ones… there are hundreds of these.

    Acronym - Full Latin - English

     

    PRN - pro re nata - as needed

    NPO - nil per os - nothing my both

    AC - ante cibum - before eating

    OD - oculus dexter - right eye

    OS - oculus sinister - left eye

    Q8H - quaque octava hora - every 8 hours

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    • Holzkohlen@feddit.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      QED

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    • Sir_Fridge@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Etc

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hey I can finally ask, how much of medical terms are Greek?

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  • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Most is Latin but many anatomy terms are Greek.

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  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not really any that I’m aware of, but I’m a tech, so my insight is only surface level. Grain of salt.

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