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Comment by lordnacho

This is a problem in just about every language that isn't English. Since the language of science is English, either you borrow the English word (which interestingly is likely borrowed from Latin) or you know a local word that.

But at some stage your local vocabulary runs out, and you wonder whether you should just use English for everything in that domain to make it consistent.

I've run into this problem with a load of languages, I just don't know the right word for things like DNA or vector calculus, or it sounds wrong.

parent lordnacho 7 years ago

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