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> naming things is hard Of tangential interest: I recently heard that Faraday, while discovering new electromagnetic phenomenon, then turned to either a lingui
by pitherpather 3y ago
> naming things is hard
Of tangential interest: I recently heard that Faraday, while discovering new electromagnetic phenomenon, then turned to either a linguist or classicist for help in assigning/inventing terms for them. (I cannot find a link for this just now, so consider this heresay.)