Aineo wrote:The Puppetmaster wrote:So because science and medicine uses a dead language for the benefits it has and because you're too lazy to actually look up the names (which are the common names that are taught in school in this country), that makes our arguments "elitist" and not worthy of your time?
Fair enough.
I took 3 years of Latin and still have the textbooks. And if you read what I posted with any understanding I made myself clear.
I do not have the time to learn a specialized language so Internet trolls can disput this message board. If advancing our knowledge is your agenda you will learn to communicate effectively; a skill I had to learn after graduating from college so I could communicate with less educated people effectively to get a job done properly. I did not expect those less educated or knowledgable than I am to learn how to communicate at college level.
A helpful hint -
Labeling people 'trolls' will probably not make them any more civil, and it just makes you look desperate.
In science, terminology must be precise, for, among other reasons, a 'lay' term may have a different meaning in different fields of science. Take the word 'random', for example. To the average person, random probably means 'willy nilly' or 'haphazard.'
That is not the meaning in evolutionary biology.
So, you should make an effort to at leawst use the terms correctly. If you do not understand a term, say so, don't just label us elitist trolls for using the terminology we have been trained to use.