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Of course that’s iron. What, is that a Latin root or something?
It’s latin for Female Iron. Remember everything was gendered in the world of Romantic Romans
If they put the correct symbol there it would read café
Whenever abbreviations didn’t make sense, you can usually assume it’s Latin.
What about tungsten or sodium?
Apparently tungsten is also known as Wolfram, so that’s the W. Sodium Na is from neo-latinm
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.
Hey I can finally ask, how much of medical terminology is Greek?
Most is Latin but many anatomy terms are Greek. Heme, dermis, ect. Anatomy itself is a word that comes from Greek.
Not really any that I’m aware of, but I’m a tech, so my insight is only surface level. Grain of salt.
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.
Esperanto, the second language of the international laborer /hj
I unironically kinda wish that would take off. The concept of a super simple bridge language is great.
I didn’t say it was a bad system or that we need to change it: I said I hate it.
Fair enough haha
Um English? It’s the international language and language of research, though some may not like hearing that.
The whole point of using a “dead” language is that languages change over time and scientists once had the foresight to attempt making their works more universal over both multiple languages and over time.
English is only the lingua franca for now, but that, as well as the English language, will inevitably change.
People will hate on this, but what other breakfast cereal contains dental X-rays in every crunch?
Also a good source of California
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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.
Everyone knows that iron, like all abbreviated four-letter nouns gets abbreviated as the first three letters.
Iro
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FucSee? Easy peasy
Don’t you mean “Eas peasy” :P
Easpeas
