Comment on Aluminum

• lud@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And thanks for that. Aluminum is a stupid as name.

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  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As opposed to “Platinium”

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  • Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Tantalium

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• hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Guy that named it called it Aluminum, Alumium, and Aluminium. Aluminium stuck, even in the US.

  Then some weirdo types decided they were in charge of naming things in the US decided it needs to be Aluminum. It took them about 50-90 years to succeed.

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• Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, the guy who discovered it called it Alumium, after Alum. Both Aluminum and Aluminium were later constructions by journals on opposite sides of the pond.

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• mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Weirdo types that decided they were in charge of naming things

  You can say “British” here

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• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Guy that named it called it Aluminum

  Let me guess: you pronounce GIF as Jif just because the creator is a peanut butter obsessed weirdo who couldn’t pronounce “graphics”?

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  • PoopingCough@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    couldn’t pronounce “graphics”

    That’s not how acronym pronunciation works though. We don’t pronounce them based on the words they stand for, otherwise we would pronounce NASA, SCUBA, LASER, etc. differently. Both pronunciations have valid arguments so why can’t we just accept both and stop being weird about it.

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    • dditty@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because I arbitrarily decided it’s gif and anyone who says it the other way is wrong 😡😡😡

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