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  • keepcarrot [she/her]
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    1 month ago

    German is pretty famous for this, but we do it a lot in English too. We just don't concatenate our words and have lots of loan words

    I wish maths had this for names. I don't want to remember mathematicians names.

    • jaywalker [they/them]
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      1 month ago

      Literally everything should be like this, fuck naming stuff after a person. Most of the time it's just the first white dude who wrote about the thing anyway. Animals, theories, buildings, rename all of it