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3045035 No.3045035 [Reply] [Original]

Why isn't silicon called silicium in English? For the vast majority of elements you've kept the Latin name, what gives? I mad since I always have to pause to remember the English names for silicon, sodium, potassium etc.

>> No.3045046

Most of the elements use the Greek name, not the Latin one.

I've never heard anyone say silicium when talking about silicon, and even as I type this, my computer is registering silicium as a word that doesn't exist in the dictionary.

>> No.3045060

>>3045046
Wrong faggot.

>> No.3045091

>>3045046

Firefox's dictionary is a bit inept, though.

>Type "color."
>Firefox underlines it.
>"Through"
>Firefox underlines it.
>Pants.
>Firefox underlines it.
>Firefox are you trolling me?
>Firefox crashes.

>> No.3045124

>>3045091
>Type "color."
>Firefox underlines it.

It would help if you spelt things correctly

>> No.3045141

>>3045124

Yeah, I meant to type "colour" but auto-corrected it with Firefox without meaning to.

Goddammit, Firefox.

>> No.3045166

Same reason we say Iron, Lead, and Tin instead of Ferrum, Plumbum, and Stannum

>> No.3045177

>>3045166

Plumbum is a fucking awesome word.

From here on out I plan to use plumbum as often as possible.

>> No.3045183

>>3045177
you kinda already do. notice how the corresponding element symbols are Fe, Pb, and Sn?

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3045193

>>3045183

>kinda, already do
>kinda
>already
>do
>3 words meaning the same thing
>mfw aspie faggot has trouble understanding language

>> No.3045228

>>3045193
wat

>> No.3045241

>>3045193

Double wat.

What wrong with "Kind of already do"?

>> No.3045246

>>3045035

I swear English has the most retarded element names.

"Pottasium"? "Sodium"? TUNGSTEN? It's called Wolfram, English dogs.

>> No.3045248

>>3045246

Hey man. Hey. Hey, just cool your jets Man. Dont look for trouble. Tungsten is a cool word. Man.

>> No.3045257

>>3045193
Yes, human languages are redundant. This is a feature, not a bug. It makes it easy to understand even if you mishear a word or don't know a word.

>> No.3045305

>>3045193
What is redundant about it?
"you do" does not mean the same thing as "you already do" or "you kind of do" or "you kind of already do"

All of those sentences have different meanings.

>> No.3045323

I got a boner.
I already got a boner.
I kinda got a boner.
I already kinda bot a boner.

>> No.3045332

>>3045305

>"You already use XXXXXXX"

would have sufficed.

>You kind of use XXXXXXXXXXx

would have sufficed

>You do use XXXXXXXXXXX

would have sufficed

The original poster is just a moronic douchebag.
Also, filling your sentences with redundant words does not mean you are smart.

>> No.3045394

>>3045332
To say something would suffice and that something is redundant are two different things.

Regardless of if you believe he used too many words, what he said was not redundant because the additional words changed the meaning of the sentence.

"already" means "you may not have realized it but"

"kind of" means "it isn't exactly the same as that but"

"You do even though you may not have realized it and even though it isn't exactly the same." is not the same as saying "You do"

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3045414

>>3045323
>bot a boner
I just bet you did.

>> No.3045451

why the fuck is wolfensteinium called tungsten it's full retard mode!

>> No.3045484

>>3045451
>wolfensteinium
Laughed.
Hard.

>> No.3045513

what, are you a native Latine?