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[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Science jargon has always sounded so impressive until I took anatomy.

for example, the big hole in the bottom of your skull (where the spinal chord passes through) is called the “foramen magnum” which is Latin for ‘big hole’.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Unlike the cowards who hide their stupid names with latin, computer scientists will straight up call something a 'fat pointer'.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is it jargon or just a different language

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Scientists use one to pretend the other

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

You gotta mix Greek and Latin to make it sound ~~cool~~.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I recently learned that mastodon (the animal) literally means breast tooth, because some thought their teeth (or tusks?) looked, well, breasty?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Get this. You have a structure in your brain called the "mammillary bodies". It's because it looks like a pair of tits.