Whenever abbreviations didn’t make sense, you can usually assume it’s Latin.
Part of this complete breakfast!
Submitted 10 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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someguy3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago
Hey I can finally ask, how much of medical terms are Greek?
Rubanski@lemm.ee 10 months ago
What about tungsten?
someguy3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Apparently tungsten is also known as Wolfram, so that’s the W. Sodium Cl is from neo-latinm
lengau@midwest.social 10 months ago
Iridium quality cereal? ConcernedApe is so good to us!
Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 10 months 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.
absentbird@lemm.ee 10 months ago
People will hate on this, but what other breakfast cereal contains dental X-rays in every crunch?
OrnateLuna@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Just sucks they don’t provide the x-ray films in the package
thefartographer@lemm.ee 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago
Don’t you mean “Eas peasy” :P
zarathustrad@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Easpeas
ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 10 months ago
That’s some expensive cereal…
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Probably cheap compared to that Kashi stuff.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Takes a distant third to magic spoon
spujb@lemmy.cafe 10 months 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 10 months ago
a way to make science more accessible to everyone ostensibly I believe.
everyone that speaks English…
spujb@lemmy.cafe 10 months ago
well, we all know everyone who does science speaks english 🤷♀️
grandkaiser@lemmy.world 10 months ago
10/10 chain jerking
spujb@lemmy.cafe 10 months ago
i’m jerking their chains🤣
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months ago
Can confirm Genovia doesn’t a fuck about IUPAC and it’s naming conventions.
spujb@lemmy.cafe 10 months 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?
TheBloodFarts@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Love me some cereal fortified with Iridium
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Bröther
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 months ago
Iridium and Californium!
FlaminGoku@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Quickly, you only have .0001 seconds to enjoy your Californium!
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
man = male, iron = Fe > __________
codapine@lemm.ee 10 months ago
If they put the correct symbol there it would read café
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Fe
Of course that’s iron. What, is that a Latin root or something?
Yax@feddit.de 10 months ago
Yup, ferrum is the Latin word.
Resol@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months ago
If they put “Fe” on it, too many people would boycott it for gendering the cereal.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 10 months ago
It’s latin for Female Iron. Remember everything was gendered in the world of Romantic Romans
gmtom@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Also a good source of California
intensely_human@lemm.ee 10 months 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 10 months ago
Scanning for Iridium.
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 10 months ago
Something something Borderlands...
qiancsf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
ok
shundi82@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Hah, the ir_ony. :D
xavier666@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Teferric pun!
shundi82@sh.itjust.works 10 months 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