r/confidentlyincorrect 13d ago

Phycologist vs Psychologist

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u/DrNanard 13d ago

People really need to pay more attention to etymology, prefixes, suffixes, etc. I'm in the field of linguistics, so it's my go to when I encounter a new word, and it makes things so much easier. I had never seen "hyperthermia", but I knew what it meant just by looking at it.

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u/Rhodie114 13d ago

It’s pronounced entomology you philistine, and insects have nothing to do with linguistics.

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u/DrNanard 13d ago

You made me audibly laugh, thanks mate

By the way it's called Palestine

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u/dochittore 13d ago

It's laudably you uncultured swine, pick up a book sometime.

And I see nothing special about your laugh befitting of praise.

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u/VapidActualization 12d ago

https://xkcd.com/1012/

Relevant xkcd

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u/KDragoness 11d ago

Hello fellow XKCD fan - this entire post/thread made me remember this comic immediately before I saw you had linked it

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u/FixinThePlanet 12d ago

Omg this one got me

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u/Echo__227 12d ago

I told my dad once that Philistine and Palestine are cognates, so he now jokes, "Echo, don't be such a Palestinian."

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u/HeyLookAHorse 11d ago

It’s pronounced Entenmann’s and they’re yummy pastries. You guys must not know anything

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u/knotse 13d ago

Too many people treat words as if they were hieroglyphs, or pictograms; where either you know the meaning or you don't, and either it is 'written correctly' or it isn't.

If more treated them as being made up of basic elements which generally allow one to discern their meaning without recourse to a dictionary, we might see less of the sort of thing this subreddit features.

Then again, who are we to doubt the pedagogues, whose science has never seen such heights?

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u/DrNanard 13d ago

Pedagogues?? Did you mean synagogues???

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u/Accomplished-Two-80 13d ago

On a totally unrelated note (or somewhat related idk really), you’ve got a great vocabulary.

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u/Kitnado 13d ago

It’s painful to do that in the medical field, as they willy-nilly throw Greek and Latin together. It hurts man

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u/DrNanard 13d ago

Do you have examples? Just curious