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[–] [email protected] 151 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

No one really knows. Some even say it doesn't exist.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 week ago

The correct answer is: "I forgot, you should show me."

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (13 children)

To be fair, it would be easier if English had kept the English terms for anatomy.

But for some reason everyone decided to only use Latin and Greek derived words.

Like seriously. Nearly every time I look at Wikipedia for anything, English articles only ever use scientific terms hardly anyone will find useful.

Example:

Wolf's entire biological taxonomical tree from species to order. Both the translated German Wikipedia title and the English one:

Species: Wolf <> Wolf

Genus: Wolf- and Jackal-like <> Canis

Tribe: True Dogs <> Canini

Family: Dogs <> Canidae

Suborder: Doglike <> Caniformia

Order: Predatory animal <> Carnivora

Ask someone what "Caniformia" is and most would probably think you're talking about some region on the US West Coast. Ask someone what "Doglike" refers to and most would probably guess reasonably correct.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The fact that the entire medical industry does this. I like how ChubbyEmu on Youtube will do the vocabulary resurrection "Hyponatremia. Hypo meaning low, natra meaning sodium, emia, presence in blood. Low sodium presence in blood" and then he'll use the English phrase for the rest of the video. "Because he had low blood sodium..."

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The entire medical industry does this so that in every language on the planet they are talking about the same thing and know that they are talking about the same thing and that there hasn't been a translation error. Hyponatremia is hyponatremia no matter what language you speak.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Meanwhile the aviation industry uses English worldwide.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

And naturally not everyone wants to pick English for the common language. If we're picking one language people use over others, you'll have French people wanting theirs picked and so on. So easier to pick a language that's not the native language of anyone to sidestep that fight.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

kept the English terms for anatomy.

Please tell me where I can find out about the original English words for these things.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Ask a cunning linguist?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I disagree, using Latin terms means that all technical terms stay the same across languages.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Where are the smaller lips?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

Anyone who's a bit inquisitive about what words means will notice that "transform" means "changing shape", and that the teeth that look like dog fangs are called "canines". At that point, "caniformia" obviously means "dog-shaped".

Specialistic terms don't need to be easy for the layman, but to be explicative for the specialist. I can say that "a complete lattice is the generalisation of the power set of some domain" which is a phrase composed entirely of English words but if you haven't studied anything about abstract algebra you don't knkw what it means, but that is a phrase made for math students, not for any random guy.

Also those Latin terms are literally international terms, a Russian biologist will say "Canis lupus" to an Icelandic biologist and they will understand. So you really have nothing to complain about. Just be glad that Linnaeus used an agnostic language for international terminology instead of using his native language (Swedish) like the anglophones do.

P.s. you know that Mussolini had all commonly used foreign words and names translated to Italian? And to this day Italian children don't study Francis Bacon and René Descartes, but Francesco Bacone and Renato Cartesio.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I got confused because i initially read that as Worf instead of Wolf, and i thought that it was weird trying to make a point with a Star Trek character.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago (2 children)

To be fair, the majority of women, who have said bits, don't know what they are either, most seem to think it is all vagina.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean, colloquially it is.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

If you are brave enough?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Indeed, but it’s as accurate as saying ones scrotum is dick.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Aren’t most of the external parts actually the vulva? I thought the vagina was just the tube…

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

It is, but properly naming things isn't something Internet users are very good at.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Is it that one over there? I can't really tell since it is not visible with this light pollution. Even though there is only one Libra constellation, you have have been confused by Ursa Major and the Ursa Minor, where some stars are very visible. Oh you said labia."

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Labia? I don't think that section of the sky is visible this time of year. Or, maybe it's behind the full moon.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

It’s southern hemisphere for sure

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago

I'm not Jewish, so I don't know much about menorahs in general.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

For some guys it might well be light years away.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So weird to hear this. Like the whole area just isn’t that big, surely eventually most people stumble into it even if they aren’t making an effort…

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

I very rarely come across a labia minora either at work or at home, but maybe I'm not working in the right place or something.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yeah after hearing the "can't find the clitoris" and "it doesn't exist" jokes for so long, I was kind of shocked by how easy it was when I finally got down there...

I do believe that there are men who have this issue, but it seems kind of fucked up that the woman would just complain about it rather than take 3 seconds to show them. It's not like it's well hidden or anything.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I too quiz my partner on the anatomy of genitalia when we're hanging out

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Wait, what, you don't have a cloaca?

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/debgordon/2023/10/21/90-of-americans-feel-unprepared-by-sex-education-new-survey-shows/

I mean, the state of sex education in the US is abysmal, misinformation and just no information is so rampant that it's rather silly to expect the average young adult to know the detailed anatomic names.

In my life so far, I've dated plently of women who didn't know anatomical names, or with a few, even basic signs of what a vaginal health problem looks like.

With one, I had to deduce that her described urinary problems were possibly actually bacterial vaginosis when I uh, also noticed the smell.

She got extremely pissed off, thinking I was insulting her, thinking I was saying she had an STD/STI... a week later she's back from the doctor and yep, I was right, now she's on antibiotics.

How many women can, off the top of their head, identify the vas deferens, cowper's gland, or know that testicular torsion is even a thing?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I see all these stupid boyfriend/stupid husband stuff, and I can't help but think maybe my ex wife was just jealous of her friends that had stupid men in their lives.

And maybe I'm just overqualified for relationships. I mean, shit, that was the advice my brother gave me: "I get along with people because they're much smarter than me." One of the first red flags I remembery ex wife telling me was "you know you don't have to be so smarty all the time."

Ok, no, I can't even lie to myself that well, can you imagine? Being overqualified for dating lol

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I couldn't tell you the Latin names for my own bits, either.

Edit: that said, I might not know all the street names, but I can still drive you home, and I'm not averse to asking for directions.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's so much better to offer a demonstration.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

The search still go on ✨

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I know it says bf (which I will assume means boyfriend)

But I'd you read the studies:

45% of men aged 18-25 had never approached a woman in person for a date

29% of all men said they never approached a woman in person for a date before

27% said it had been more than one year since they approached a woman for a date

Source(s):

https://datepsychology.com/risk-aversion-and-dating/

https://x.com/DrThomasAG/status/1674391128215367682

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/darwin-does-dating/202305/the-potential-negative-impact-of-unwanted-singlehood

Pair that with the quality of education and it is of no surprise that a boyfriend doesn't know what they never knew existed in the first place

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Uno Reverse Card:

  • Tell her to point to the Vas Deferens
  • "We're not so different, you and I"
  • High-five
  • True gender-equality finally accomplished
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

He must’ve forgot which hemisphere he was on. Common mistake.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i didnt know we were getting quizzed. crap. is that the uh inner lips?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bingo! You win a heated bath mat!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

holy hell im goated cant believe i remembered that

ill have to put that in my dating profile "correctly guessed what labia minora is"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If I were you, I'd changed "guessed what is" to "identified".

Signals an analytic, inquisitive, and curious mind, rather than someone who happened to fortuitously win a game of "pin the minora on the labia".

Though admittedly that IS a hell of a game when played right..

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

idgaf what "science" says.

It's. 👏 Still. 👏 A. 👏 Planet. 👏

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