• ne0n@lemmy.world
      1·
      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…

  • Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.caEnglish
    38·
    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.

  • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
    54·
    11 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 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.

    • GratefullyGodless@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      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.

    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
      3·
      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
      14·
      8 hours ago

      kept the English terms for anatomy.

      Please tell me where I can find out about the original English words for these things.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      24·
      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.caEnglish
        19·
        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.

        • randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
          4·
          6 hours ago

          Haha not actually. In Chinese maybe when doctors talk with each other they sometimes will use the English term (by this I mean the Latin/Greek-origin one), but mostly they translate the word bits (morphemes) one by one to Chinese (低血鈉, where 低=low, 血=blood, 鈉=sodium). They never ever use the English term to patients. You won’t be able to find anyone in China or Taiwan who knows what “hyponatremia” means unless they’re in the medical industry or they’re just very good at English.

      • Jesus_666@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        11 hours ago

        Note that these, too, have a German name, which translates to “inner taint-lips”. Just calling them “labia” in English is not just defaulting to Latin but also imprecise.

          • Jesus_666@lemmy.world
            1·
            43 minutes ago

            It’s an old term for the sexual organs that’s only used as part of terms these days. I tried to kinda match that. My translation wasn’t great, though.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      12 hours ago

      Ask someone what “Doglike” refers to and most would probably guess reasonably correct.

      Way to damn humanity with faint praise 😄

    • edinbruh@feddit.itEnglish
      65·
      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”.

      Specialistic terms don’t need to be easy for the layman, but to be explicative for the specialist. I can say that “a complete lattice is the generalisation of the power set of some domain” which is a phrase composed entirely of English words but if you haven’t studied anything about abstract algebra you don’t knkw what it means, but that is a phrase made for math students, not for any random guy.

      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.

      P.s. you know that Mussolini had all commonly used foreign words and names translated to Italian? And to this day Italian children don’t study Francis Bacon and René Descartes, but Francesco Bacone and Renato Cartesio.

      • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        9 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.

        • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml
          1·
          2 hours ago

          “ear-nose-throat” is commonly used in English.

          And it kind of is like the medical field popped into existence in the 1700s.

        • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
          3·
          4 hours ago

          Eye Doctor <> Optometrist

          Perfect example of why that is a bad approach. An Optometrist can measure your eyes for basic vision problems and monitor your retina issues, but you’d need an Ophthalmologist if you need surgery on those eyes for something the Optometrist finds.

        • zaphod@sopuli.xyz
          5·
          8 hours ago

          Otorhinolaryngologist

          Ot- => ear

          rhin- => nose

          laryng- => throat

          or just ENT, I’ve heard that being used.

  • frog@feddit.uk
    51·
    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.”

  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.socialEnglish
    173·
    13 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
      1·
      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. ;)