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minus-squareyesman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up99·9 days agoScience jargon has always sounded so impressive until I took anatomy. for example, the big hole in the bottom of your skull (where the spinal chord passes through) is called the “foramen magnum” which is Latin for ‘big hole’.
minus-squareNeatoBuilds@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·9 days agoIs it jargon or just a different language
minus-squareDreamButt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·9 days agoScientists use one to pretend the other
minus-squareHobbes_Dent@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 days agoYou gotta mix Greek and Latin to make it sound cool.
minus-squareazi@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agoUnlike the cowards who hide their stupid names with latin, computer scientists will straight up call something a ‘fat pointer’.
Science jargon has always sounded so impressive until I took anatomy.
for example, the big hole in the bottom of your skull (where the spinal chord passes through) is called the “foramen magnum” which is Latin for ‘big hole’.
Is it jargon or just a different language
Scientists use one to pretend the other
You gotta mix Greek and Latin to make it sound
cool.Unlike the cowards who hide their stupid names with latin, computer scientists will straight up call something a ‘fat pointer’.