> "Meiosis, the process of cell division that produces haploid gametes in diploid organisms"no wonder people have an aversion to science, its just a bunch of dumbass sounding jargon. not to mention people that are into science must have, at some point, been like, "wow scientific sounding words :D" and so theyre naturally gay as hell
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>you must point at things not use words!
>>16930476a woeful mischaracterization, my good sir !
>>16930458Science needed a unified language so they used latin or greek. This was before internet and hollywood so nobody understood english.
>>16930458These words have meaning. "Haploid" is much easier to say than describing their chromosome count in relation to the chromosome counts of other cells every time that characteristic is relevant to the discussion. Crying about the use of scientific jargon is like getting mad that someone said "pen" instead of "that thing people use to scribble lines of ink on paper with."
>>16930488nah my conclusion is more like "no wonder people get annoyed at science." Im not anti science terminology and im aware how words work.
>>16930491That's not even a conclusion. The statement can be interpreted however one chooses.What even is the problem in your eyes? That the jargon exists? That people get discouraged when they look up a definition of something and more words they don't understand pop up? I sounds to me like even you're not sure what you're complaining about.
>>16930458((((Science)))) Is wrecking the world
>>16930458>Cletus upset other languages than English existDo you have any idea how fucking stupid half your troglodyte knockoff of German sounds to foreigners?
>>16930485Sometimes I wonder what it's like to grow up with a language like Japanese, since the country was advanced enough, literate enough and exotic enough a century ago that they created their own "native" terms for scientific/academic concepts instead of using latin/greek.Mind you, they're mostly just borrowing foreign terms directly these days, but it has to help a lot to learn science with a vocabulary you can understand at a glance.Of course Western students a century or two ago were also expected to be familiar with greek or latin.
>>16930522As far as I can tell most languages had scientific terms that are native: German and French in particular are well known to, as some of their jargon was anglicized later. English, and by that I mean BE, has a history of having been purposefully complicated by design to enforce a class divide on a language level. The mob was supposed to struggle to keep up with conversations of the higher class, and this practice could still be seen in more subtle ways in print media until at least the 20th century.
>>16930545German sort of yes, French not really, in fact French was exporting barely francisized greco-latin academic jargon to laggards throughout the world. Native french words are rarely used outside of military theory and philosophy.But even for german... Like compare these two pages, I don't think you need to speak either language to understand that one is far more independent from greco-roman etymology than the other:https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiosehttps://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/減数分裂
