He has dementia which is an easy enough word for most people to be able to say. If you want to know the location of the dementia it’s in the frontotemporal area of the brain. But why that complex word well the front of the brain is called the frontal lobes which is a fairly logical name then the temporal lobe is the part that’s near your temples which is also kind of logical.
Historically medicine has been bad about being less specific with names and instead just naming things after people which while they are easier to say don’t actually describe what’s happening
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yes, it’s easy for most people to say and spell dementia. Except for some of the people actually suffering from brain/memory disorders…
Mesophar@pawb.social 1 day ago
How is “dementia” harder than any other word? If they are suffering from brain/memory disorders, wouldn’t any new or novel word have the same issue? I think the opposite would be better, and normalizing simplified forms of the medical terminology (dementia instead of frontotemporal dementia) in every day language allows those words to have deeper roots in someone’s memory, making it less novel and more resilient to certain memory issues.
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 day ago
How is “dementia” more difficult than other words?
Dementia is never even pronounced right.
It’s spelled that way, but it’s pronounced “demenshia”
Anivia@feddit.org 5 hours ago
You’re telling on yourself
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 day ago
I’ve literally never heard anyone say dementia incorrectly.
howrar@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I think what this is telling us is that OP hangs out in circles where no one knows what dementia is, so it seems like a complicated word for them.
Mesophar@pawb.social 1 day ago
I’ve never heard it pronounced any other way?
And my point is that being exposed to the word dementia, and taught what it means and how to say it, is no different than being taught how to say Teflon. When you first learn it, it will be a bit awkward. The more you and people around you use it, the more familiar it will become. That just how language works.
What do you propose we use instead of dementia? How would that be a better solution? I’m not against helping people with better accessibility, I just don’t see where this is a problem that can be solved by changing the words used. Especially since to me it seems like we already do what is being suggested in the title post. We already usually have a general term in common conversation in place of the full medical term used by medical professionals.
Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Must be terrible for the french dementia patients then, those fuckers don’t even pronounce half of their words.