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starling_bird wrote:

LordRetard wrote:They still publish some stuff in Latin, but nobody reads it so it's okay.

It's called 'botany'... I don't know what it's actually for apart from elitism for those who can pronounce the names.

This is one interesting thing I learned when I took German class. In English, the names we use for scientific terms, ex. bones and plants and stuff, are all taken from Latin, whereas German normally uses the original Germanic word. The word "xenophobia"* translates into "Ausländerfeindlichkeit", which most literally means "foreigner hostility". This is what makes German sound so funny and yet very easy to recognise new words!

*I confess that this is Greek, but honestly I'm having a hard time thinking of good Latin words that English uses. Oddly enough.

Television!

Oh that one's easy, it's der Fernseher, or "far seer".

Telos is Greek.

Most anatomical things are Latin, though. Corpus Callosum, Scapula, Malleus/Inchus/Stapes, et cetera.

Oldrac the Chitinous wrote:Malleus/Inchus/Stapes

These ones I think are known by their Germanic names mostly, Hammer, Amboss and Steigbügel.

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