Whenever abbreviations didn’t make sense, you can usually assume it’s Latin.
Part of this complete breakfast!
Submitted 3 days ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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someguy3@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 3 days ago
This is medicine in a nutshell too. And not just abbreviations, but acronyms… for words in a language that no one uses. I hate it.
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I literally took Latin in college for the sole reason that Latin is used in super stupid ways, and my science communication degree would be worth less without that knowledge. Because Latin-base is fully half of the science terms you need to know.
And my college was super on board with my reasoning. Wish I’d also had the mental capacity for ancient Greek, because that’s literally the other half of naming schemes.
Ridiculous.
I’m super into modern scientists giving shit pop culture names. Because holy shit is it ever more memorable than some random Latin/greek bullshit.
Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Well, what other language should be used? Latin is the language of science because there’s no way we’d ever agree on which alive language to use.
someguy3@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Hey I can finally ask, how much of medical terms are Greek?
Rubanski@lemm.ee 2 days ago
What about tungsten?
someguy3@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Apparently tungsten is also known as Wolfram, so that’s the W. Sodium Cl is from neo-latinm
lengau@midwest.social 2 days ago
Iridium quality cereal? ConcernedApe is so good to us!
Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 1 day ago
It’s hard to make though. You have to harvest Iridium quality Wheat and mine for Iridium bars and then build the Advanced Cereal Irradiator on your farm to craft it.
It’s hard to do until year 2.
ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 2 days ago
That’s some expensive cereal…
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Probably cheap compared to that Kashi stuff.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Takes a distant third to magic spoon
spujb@lemmy.cafe 2 days ago
Yeah, my good buddy is from Genovia, where they use a regional version of the periodic table with more human-friendly names. They use Ca for calcium, Ir for iron, Hy for hydrogen, and Ox for oxygen. This change was their answer to the metric system—a way to make science more accessible to everyone ostensibly I believe.
Back in the 1960s, Gennovia was looking to bolster its local industry and economy. The government decided that simplifying scientific terms would help more people get into science and technology fields. It seems to be working because their literacy rates in science are through the roof? Somehow. They even have Ni for nickel and Si for silver, making it so much easier to remember what’s what. I didn’t know it was prevalent enough that it made its way onto package branding tho. Interesting stuff.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 2 days ago
a way to make science more accessible to everyone ostensibly I believe.
everyone that speaks English…
spujb@lemmy.cafe 2 days ago
well, we all know everyone who does science speaks english 🤷♀️
grandkaiser@lemmy.world 2 days ago
10/10 chain jerking
spujb@lemmy.cafe 2 days ago
i’m jerking their chains🤣
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Well I didn’t expect to see a Meg Cabot reference on Lemmy. (She’s actually a family friend believe it or not.)
cum_hoc@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Can confirm Genovia doesn’t a fuck about IUPAC and it’s naming conventions.
spujb@lemmy.cafe 2 days ago
Do we know the root of the history behind this? Were there any genuine reasons or minds behind it or was it reactionaryism, plain and simple?
absentbird@lemm.ee 3 days ago
People will hate on this, but what other breakfast cereal contains dental X-rays in every crunch?
OrnateLuna@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Just sucks they don’t provide the x-ray films in the package
thefartographer@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Everyone knows that iron, like all abbreviated four-letter nouns gets abbreviated as the first three letters.
Iro
Jun
FucSee? Easy peasy
RiikkaTheIcePrincess@pawb.social 3 days ago
Iroh, Junk, Fuc… uhhhh… Fucu fish? Fucy, a name like “Lucy” but absolute garbtrash?
… Yeah okay that one’s just “Fuck.” But let’s talk about Iroh anyway! He’s way cool.
TheWinged7@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Don’t you mean “Eas peasy” :P
zarathustrad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Easpeas
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 days ago
Iridium and Californium!
FlaminGoku@reddthat.com 2 days ago
Quickly, you only have .0001 seconds to enjoy your Californium!
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Fe
Of course that’s iron. What, is that a Latin root or something?
Yax@feddit.de 2 days ago
Yup, ferrum is the Latin word.
Resol@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Good thing I speak French, it won’t ever get me confused. In French, iron is called “fer”. Also, copper is “cuivre”, which also matches its periodic table symbol of Cu. Same can be said for lead: “plomb”.
Unfortunately, there’s quite a few that also don’t match the symbol, some aren’t even in English. I always hated how nitrogen is called “azote” in French.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
If they put “Fe” on it, too many people would boycott it for gendering the cereal.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 day ago
It’s latin for Female Iron. Remember everything was gendered in the world of Romantic Romans
codapine@lemm.ee 2 days ago
If they put the correct symbol there it would read café
TheBloodFarts@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Love me some cereal fortified with Iridium
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Bröther
gmtom@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Also a good source of California
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
man = male, iron = Fe > __________
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 day ago
The term “oat start” makes me think of a bag of oats over one’s mouth making it impossible to start whatever they were gonna start. The meaning is enhanced by the stoppiness off the word sounds.
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Scanning for Iridium.
qiancsf@lemmy.world 1 day ago
ok
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 3 days ago
Something something Borderlands...
shundi82@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Hah, the ir_ony. :D
xavier666@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Teferric pun!
shundi82@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
It would have been even better, if I’d said:
“An excellent source of irony.”
But alas, I’m not that witty on the spot. :-P