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I respect your rant, but this ship has sailed long ago. I'm fine with arbitrary names, my pet peeve is names that are actively misleading. For example oxygen,
by ajuc 5y ago
I respect your rant, but this ship has sailed long ago. I'm fine with arbitrary names, my pet peeve is names that are actively misleading.
For example oxygen, which isn't actually required to make acids but is required for burning stuff. In some languages its name comes from fire, and that makes so much more sense.
Even worse example is electron having "negative" charge or elementary particles having "spin".
- R0b0t1 5y agoNo, I really gotta side with him on this one, it's a huge problem in mathematics. In programming it just becomes annoying as "Joe's Text Editor" gives you something as opposed to "Joe's Polyphasic Maldovian Quirklegag" which gives you almost nothing.
- Igelau 5y agoMy monophasic Merovingian quirklegag is deeply offended by this.