• Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    It’s the whole reason science stuff tends to use latin as much as possible. It’s a dead language that is relatively easy to learn, but won’t evolve over time as no one is casually using it.

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      5 months ago

      Scientific terms describe very specific things in a very specific way. It’s the “no one’s casually using it” part that keeps it more consistent, not the origin of the terms themselves.

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      5 months ago

      Show me any science paper that is using latin outside of scientific names of animals or anatomy. No one is publishing their research in Latin