Isn’t it near Uranus?
You got it, buddy
Submitted 16 hours ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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danekrae@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 14 hours ago
No one really knows. Some even say it doesn’t exist.
Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
To be fair, the majority of women, who have said bits, don’t know what they are either, most seem to think it is all vagina.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
I mean, colloquially it is.
Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Indeed, but it’s as accurate as saying ones scrotum is dick.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 14 hours ago
The correct answer is: “I forgot, you should show me.”
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 12 hours ago
To be fair, it would be easier if English had kept the English terms for anatomy.
But for some reason everyone decided to only use Latin and Greek derived words.
Like seriously. Nearly every time I look at Wikipedia for anything, English articles only ever use scientific terms hardly anyone one will find useful.
Example:
Wolf’s entire biological taxonomical tree from species to order. Both the translated German Wikipedia title and the English one:
Species: Wolf <> Wolf
Genus: Wolf- and Jackal-like <> Canis
Tribe: True Dogs <> Canini
Family: Dogs <> Canidae
Suborder: Doglike <> Caniformia
Order: Predatory animal <> Carnivora
Ask someone what “Caniformia” is and most would probably think you’re talking about some region on the US West Coast. Ask someone what “Doglike” refers to and most would probably guess reasonably correct.
BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 20 minutes ago
I disagree, using Latin terms means that all technical terms stay the same across languages.
GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I got confused because i initially read that as Worf instead of Wolf, and i thought that it was weird trying to make a point with a Star Trek character.
Codandchips@lemmy.world 42 minutes ago
“Mr. Worf, set course to the Vulva region on Labia Minora 4”
Klear@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Yet annother thing that could be fixed by better education in the US.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Ask someone what “Caniformia” is and most would probably think you’re talking about some region on the US West Coast.
You’re obviously talking about noobs who aren’t watching TierZoo 😎
jsomae@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
kept the English terms for anatomy.
Please tell me where I can find out about the original English words for these things.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
Ask a cunning linguist?
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
The fact that the entire medical industry does this. I like how ChubbyEmu on Youtube will do the vocabulary resurrection “Hyponatremia. Hypo meaning low, natra meaning sodium, emia, presence in blood. Low sodium presence in blood” and then he’ll use the English phrase for the rest of the video. “Because he had low blood sodium…”
Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
The entire medical industry does this so that in every language on the planet they are talking about the same thing and know that they are talking about the same thing and that there hasn’t been a translation error. Hyponatremia is hyponatremia no matter what language you speak.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Carnifornia sounds like a great festival I gotta call up my rancher buds and get this going
edinbruh@feddit.it 9 hours ago
Anyone who’s a bit inquisitive about what words means will notice that “transform” means “changing shape”, and that the teeth that look like dog fangs are called “canines”. At that point, “caniformia” obviously means “dog-shaped”.
Specialized terms don’t need to be easy for the layman, but to be explicative for the specialist.
Also those Latin terms are literally international terms, a Russian biologist will say “Canis lupus” to an Icelandic biologist and they will understand. So you really have nothing to complain about. Just be glad that Linnaeus used an agnostic language for international terminology instead of using his native language (Swedish) like the anglophones do.
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 8 hours ago
I don’t have an issue with using scientific names in scientific contexts if you intend to publish something international researchers should be able to parse. But just like maths, there is no problem in just… translating names? Imagine if you had to phrase sentences like: “The numerus realis make up a copia infinita.” You’d have to translate Latin every time new studens would be taught because most mathematical terms convey a decent amount of information.
What I do have an issue with is using these terms anywhere outside of international contexts.
A doctor should not tell their patient they have a “humerus” fracture. In German they would take about the upper arm bone.
Or imagine if a doctor told you there is an infection in your digitus pedis. Fortunately English didn’t replace the term “toes” with its scientific one… YET.
Hell, I could even apply this to doctor names in English which require a dictionary for anyone trying to parse them. I had to look up half of them by the way.
Children’s Doctor <> Pediatrician
Women’s Doctor <> Gynecologist
Tooth Doctor <> Dentist (the least bad in my opinion - at least it’s short)
Eye Doctor <> Optometrist
Neck-Nose-Ear Doctor <> Otorhinolaryngologist (wtf???)
Skin Doctor <> Dermatologist
Like, surely there must have been (native) English terms for those doctors in the past. It’s not like the medical field popped into existence in the 1700’s. You can’t tell me a 15th century English peasent used Latin/Greek derived names for common specialized doctors.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
Where are the minor lips?
Jesus_666@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Note that these, too, have a German name, which translates to “minor taint-lips”. Just calling them “labia” in English is not just defaulting to Latin but also imprecise.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
Ask someone what “Doglike” refers to and most would probably guess reasonably correct.
Way to damn humanity with faint praise 😄
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 12 hours ago
I’m not Jewish, so I don’t know much about menorahs in general.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 hours ago
That’s the flappy part!
frog@feddit.uk 16 hours ago
“Is it that one over there? I can’t really tell since it is not visible with this light pollution. Even though there is only one Libra constellation, you have have been confused by Ursa Major and the Ursa Minor, where some stars are very visible. Oh you said labia.”
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
"Labia? I don’t think that section of the sky is visible this time of year. Or, maybe it’s behind the full moon.
meyotch@slrpnk.net 15 hours ago
It’s southern hemisphere for sure
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
It’s so much easier to perform a demonstration.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 12 hours ago
I see all these stupid boyfriend/stupid husband stuff, and I can’t help but think maybe my ex wife was just jealous of her friends that had stupid men in their lives.
And maybe I’m just overqualified for relationships. I mean, shit, that was the advice my brother gave me: “I get along with people because they’re much smarter than me.” One of the first red flags I remembery ex wife telling me was “you know you don’t have to be so smarty all the time.”
Ok, no, I can’t even lie to myself that well, can you imagine? Being overqualified for dating lol
Nomad@infosec.pub 3 hours ago
Can confirm, people generally prefer their version of reality over truth and knowledge. Spend a life aquiring knowledge and love teaching people just to learn they don’t really love learning how things actually are. Who knew people love to be told they are right, even if that’s not the case. X(
Funnily enough, when you are in a situation with someone who you have discussed for example immigration with and someone else more stupid than them starts going off about immigrants and you just start ranting the same shit as them, this seems to get number one suddenly thinking a lot more about how ridiculous you look when you so it.
Know more tricks like this, let me know. ;)
Almacca@aussie.zone 11 hours ago
I couldn’t tell you the Latin names for my own bits, either.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 10 hours ago
Mine’s Biggus Dickus.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Mine’s “Alexa Google Dick in Latin”
JoShmoe@ani.social 15 hours ago
He must’ve forgot which hemisphere he was on. Common mistake.
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 14 hours ago
i didnt know we were getting quizzed. crap. is that the uh inner lips?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
Bingo! You win a heated bath mat!
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 11 hours ago
holy hell im goated cant believe i remembered that
ill have to put that in my dating profile “correctly guessed what labia minora is”
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
For some guys it might well be light years away.
ne0n@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
So weird to hear this. Like the whole area just isn’t that big, surely eventually most people stumble into it even if they aren’t making an effort…