Exoplanet, periastron, elliptical. Sometimes I think scientists just make words up to sound smart. Elliptical. Pbbbbbbt. There’s no such word.
It's in dictionary.com, so it must be real.
Well, the periastron is a patch of skin that people have in a very personal part of their anatomies, yes?
In the 50’s astronomers would say “perigeewhiz” but it fell out of favor once the hippies showed up and ruined everything.
Scientists make up words to communicate economically. We could communicate with a vocabulary of no more than 5,000 words, but our sentences and paragraphs would be much longer.
Square, cube, pyramid, mathematicians just make up words to sound smart. Wouldn’t it be so much easier to say
“Four sided two-dimensional figure with all four sides and angles equal”,
“Solid consisting of six four sided two-dimensional figures with all four sides and angles equal, and with the vertex angles of the solid all equal as well.”
“A solid consisting of two dimensional figures with three sides each, plus another two dimensional figure dimensional figure with an arbitrary number of sides equal to the number of the other sides and sharing an edge with every one them, and a vertex angle including all the other figures...”
“Sentence”, “paragraph”, “verb”, “noun”. Grammarians just make up words just to sound smart.
Sometimes I think scientists just make words up to sound smart. Elliptical. Pbbbbbbt. There’s no such word.
No, that's what you do. There's no such word as "parceps". Perhaps you mean parsec? And yes, of course elliptical is a word, pertains to the ellipses familiar to pretty much anyone who took high school geometry.
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