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As a native speaker I would never read - in context - "ometti" as little men. IE: "Se ometti un parametro...". Every language is context sensitive. Same for
by fabbari 6y ago
As a native speaker I would never read - in context - "ometti" as little men. IE: "Se ometti un parametro...". Every language is context sensitive.
Same for "moda", when I read: "moda, mediana e media..." I would never - ever - think that "moda" is, in the context, "fashion".
"resto" - as used in: "Here is your change" - "Ecco il tuo resto" - would never be read as such in context. IE: the nursery song [1] "Quarantaquattro gatti, in fila per sei col *resto* di due" is an example of unambiguous use in the context of maths.
So: in context all these words make sense, as it's the case with many words in many languages.
[1] https://youtu.be/2jDOj0Xhcc8
- jaclaz 6y agoSure they do make sense in context.
- bzizzjz 6y agoI always remember “mode” as coming from “moda”, i.e. popular. The mode is the peak of the distribution, the most “fashionable” number. Maybe it’s fake etymology, but it works
- dmurray 6y agoI was sure this was the etymology, but apparently "mode" in statistics is quite a modern use, from a work by Pearson in 1895 in English. Whether he was influenced by the Romance languages is not clear, but there certainly isn't a direct path from Latin or French as one might have expected. https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/7675/what-is-the-etymology-of-the-term-mode-in-statistics https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/7675/what-is-the-ety...