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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’.

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

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Is it jargon or just a different language

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Scientists use one to pretend the other

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

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

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

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