Are different science terms formal words? [on hold]
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https://www.dictionary.com/misspelling?term=dodecahedrane
This is just one example: Dodecahedrane is a word accepted by the concencsus of the chemistry community, yet most chemicals like it do not appear in dictionaries. Are esoteric scientific terms actually accepted English words?
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https://www.dictionary.com/misspelling?term=dodecahedrane
This is just one example: Dodecahedrane is a word accepted by the concencsus of the chemistry community, yet most chemicals like it do not appear in dictionaries. Are esoteric scientific terms actually accepted English words?
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asked Jan 3 at 4:50
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How do you define what is an “accepted English word”? What is a word? There’s no jury that decides unilaterally what gets to be a word and what doesn’t. Clearly, dodecahedrane is an accepted word to those who know what it is and use it; to the rest of us, it’s an unknown entity. Similarly, to me, words like vrddhi, scree and Rektionskompositum are accepted words that I use in English, though most English speakers would be utterly baffled by them.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Jan 3 at 4:57
"How do you define what is an “accepted English word”? What is a word? There’s no jury that decides unilaterally what gets to be a word and what doesn’t." Well, except there is. Dictionaries are generally what people refer to for the definitions of words. Now, the people who make those dictionaries sift through different real-world usages, but their interpretation is just as biased as anyone else's. Language didn't appear out of thin air, people got together and agreed on definitions and over time it evolved. You can delude yourself into thinking there's no answers, but facts say otherwise.
– user14554
Jan 3 at 5:45
Dictionaries simply record existing usage, they don’t define it. And they don’t record all existing usage. No dictionary claims to be complete, because no dictionary can ever be complete. There is a spectrum of acceptability from words which everybody knows and which are in exceedingly common use, to words used only rarely by a handful of people. Most words fall somewhere in between, and different dictionaries include different sections of those words. I’m not saying there are no answers, just that you need to specify what your standard for wordness is in the question.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Jan 3 at 6:12
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What do you mean by formal word and dictionary? Dodecahedrane appears in the Oxford Dictionary of Chemistry (7th ed.). When new entries are added to dictionaries each year, what do you think of their epistemological status? Was the random collection of letters not a word until it appeared in a dictionary—after which it suddenly became legitimate? Are books that use the word but were written before its dictionary addition still wrong—or retroactively forgiven?
– Jason Bassford
2 days ago
" Oxford Dictionary of Chemistry (7th ed.)" Is the problem, why isn't there a single consolidated collect? Furthermore, the existence of that contradicts Janus. Anyone can make up a collection of words, but being in a dictionary implies an accepted usage. Again, you're not going to get around the fact that language exists. Even mathematics is "made up", but it still has rules and still requires consensus.
– user14554
2 days ago
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https://www.dictionary.com/misspelling?term=dodecahedrane
This is just one example: Dodecahedrane is a word accepted by the concencsus of the chemistry community, yet most chemicals like it do not appear in dictionaries. Are esoteric scientific terms actually accepted English words?
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asked Jan 3 at 4:50
user14554
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https://www.dictionary.com/misspelling?term=dodecahedrane
This is just one example: Dodecahedrane is a word accepted by the concencsus of the chemistry community, yet most chemicals like it do not appear in dictionaries. Are esoteric scientific terms actually accepted English words?
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put on hold as unclear what you're asking by choster, Jason Bassford, tchrist♦ 2 days ago
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How do you define what is an “accepted English word”? What is a word? There’s no jury that decides unilaterally what gets to be a word and what doesn’t. Clearly, dodecahedrane is an accepted word to those who know what it is and use it; to the rest of us, it’s an unknown entity. Similarly, to me, words like vrddhi, scree and Rektionskompositum are accepted words that I use in English, though most English speakers would be utterly baffled by them.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Jan 3 at 4:57
"How do you define what is an “accepted English word”? What is a word? There’s no jury that decides unilaterally what gets to be a word and what doesn’t." Well, except there is. Dictionaries are generally what people refer to for the definitions of words. Now, the people who make those dictionaries sift through different real-world usages, but their interpretation is just as biased as anyone else's. Language didn't appear out of thin air, people got together and agreed on definitions and over time it evolved. You can delude yourself into thinking there's no answers, but facts say otherwise.
– user14554
Jan 3 at 5:45
Dictionaries simply record existing usage, they don’t define it. And they don’t record all existing usage. No dictionary claims to be complete, because no dictionary can ever be complete. There is a spectrum of acceptability from words which everybody knows and which are in exceedingly common use, to words used only rarely by a handful of people. Most words fall somewhere in between, and different dictionaries include different sections of those words. I’m not saying there are no answers, just that you need to specify what your standard for wordness is in the question.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Jan 3 at 6:12
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What do you mean by formal word and dictionary? Dodecahedrane appears in the Oxford Dictionary of Chemistry (7th ed.). When new entries are added to dictionaries each year, what do you think of their epistemological status? Was the random collection of letters not a word until it appeared in a dictionary—after which it suddenly became legitimate? Are books that use the word but were written before its dictionary addition still wrong—or retroactively forgiven?
– Jason Bassford
2 days ago
" Oxford Dictionary of Chemistry (7th ed.)" Is the problem, why isn't there a single consolidated collect? Furthermore, the existence of that contradicts Janus. Anyone can make up a collection of words, but being in a dictionary implies an accepted usage. Again, you're not going to get around the fact that language exists. Even mathematics is "made up", but it still has rules and still requires consensus.
– user14554
2 days ago
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How do you define what is an “accepted English word”? What is a word? There’s no jury that decides unilaterally what gets to be a word and what doesn’t. Clearly, dodecahedrane is an accepted word to those who know what it is and use it; to the rest of us, it’s an unknown entity. Similarly, to me, words like vrddhi, scree and Rektionskompositum are accepted words that I use in English, though most English speakers would be utterly baffled by them.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Jan 3 at 4:57
"How do you define what is an “accepted English word”? What is a word? There’s no jury that decides unilaterally what gets to be a word and what doesn’t." Well, except there is. Dictionaries are generally what people refer to for the definitions of words. Now, the people who make those dictionaries sift through different real-world usages, but their interpretation is just as biased as anyone else's. Language didn't appear out of thin air, people got together and agreed on definitions and over time it evolved. You can delude yourself into thinking there's no answers, but facts say otherwise.
– user14554
Jan 3 at 5:45
Dictionaries simply record existing usage, they don’t define it. And they don’t record all existing usage. No dictionary claims to be complete, because no dictionary can ever be complete. There is a spectrum of acceptability from words which everybody knows and which are in exceedingly common use, to words used only rarely by a handful of people. Most words fall somewhere in between, and different dictionaries include different sections of those words. I’m not saying there are no answers, just that you need to specify what your standard for wordness is in the question.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Jan 3 at 6:12
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What do you mean by formal word and dictionary? Dodecahedrane appears in the Oxford Dictionary of Chemistry (7th ed.). When new entries are added to dictionaries each year, what do you think of their epistemological status? Was the random collection of letters not a word until it appeared in a dictionary—after which it suddenly became legitimate? Are books that use the word but were written before its dictionary addition still wrong—or retroactively forgiven?
– Jason Bassford
2 days ago
" Oxford Dictionary of Chemistry (7th ed.)" Is the problem, why isn't there a single consolidated collect? Furthermore, the existence of that contradicts Janus. Anyone can make up a collection of words, but being in a dictionary implies an accepted usage. Again, you're not going to get around the fact that language exists. Even mathematics is "made up", but it still has rules and still requires consensus.
– user14554
2 days ago
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How do you define what is an “accepted English word”? What is a word? There’s no jury that decides unilaterally what gets to be a word and what doesn’t. Clearly, dodecahedrane is an accepted word to those who know what it is and use it; to the rest of us, it’s an unknown entity. Similarly, to me, words like vrddhi, scree and Rektionskompositum are accepted words that I use in English, though most English speakers would be utterly baffled by them.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Jan 3 at 4:57
How do you define what is an “accepted English word”? What is a word? There’s no jury that decides unilaterally what gets to be a word and what doesn’t. Clearly, dodecahedrane is an accepted word to those who know what it is and use it; to the rest of us, it’s an unknown entity. Similarly, to me, words like vrddhi, scree and Rektionskompositum are accepted words that I use in English, though most English speakers would be utterly baffled by them.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Jan 3 at 4:57
"How do you define what is an “accepted English word”? What is a word? There’s no jury that decides unilaterally what gets to be a word and what doesn’t." Well, except there is. Dictionaries are generally what people refer to for the definitions of words. Now, the people who make those dictionaries sift through different real-world usages, but their interpretation is just as biased as anyone else's. Language didn't appear out of thin air, people got together and agreed on definitions and over time it evolved. You can delude yourself into thinking there's no answers, but facts say otherwise.
– user14554
Jan 3 at 5:45
"How do you define what is an “accepted English word”? What is a word? There’s no jury that decides unilaterally what gets to be a word and what doesn’t." Well, except there is. Dictionaries are generally what people refer to for the definitions of words. Now, the people who make those dictionaries sift through different real-world usages, but their interpretation is just as biased as anyone else's. Language didn't appear out of thin air, people got together and agreed on definitions and over time it evolved. You can delude yourself into thinking there's no answers, but facts say otherwise.
– user14554
Jan 3 at 5:45
Dictionaries simply record existing usage, they don’t define it. And they don’t record all existing usage. No dictionary claims to be complete, because no dictionary can ever be complete. There is a spectrum of acceptability from words which everybody knows and which are in exceedingly common use, to words used only rarely by a handful of people. Most words fall somewhere in between, and different dictionaries include different sections of those words. I’m not saying there are no answers, just that you need to specify what your standard for wordness is in the question.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Jan 3 at 6:12
Dictionaries simply record existing usage, they don’t define it. And they don’t record all existing usage. No dictionary claims to be complete, because no dictionary can ever be complete. There is a spectrum of acceptability from words which everybody knows and which are in exceedingly common use, to words used only rarely by a handful of people. Most words fall somewhere in between, and different dictionaries include different sections of those words. I’m not saying there are no answers, just that you need to specify what your standard for wordness is in the question.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Jan 3 at 6:12
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What do you mean by formal word and dictionary? Dodecahedrane appears in the Oxford Dictionary of Chemistry (7th ed.). When new entries are added to dictionaries each year, what do you think of their epistemological status? Was the random collection of letters not a word until it appeared in a dictionary—after which it suddenly became legitimate? Are books that use the word but were written before its dictionary addition still wrong—or retroactively forgiven?
– Jason Bassford
2 days ago
What do you mean by formal word and dictionary? Dodecahedrane appears in the Oxford Dictionary of Chemistry (7th ed.). When new entries are added to dictionaries each year, what do you think of their epistemological status? Was the random collection of letters not a word until it appeared in a dictionary—after which it suddenly became legitimate? Are books that use the word but were written before its dictionary addition still wrong—or retroactively forgiven?
– Jason Bassford
2 days ago
" Oxford Dictionary of Chemistry (7th ed.)" Is the problem, why isn't there a single consolidated collect? Furthermore, the existence of that contradicts Janus. Anyone can make up a collection of words, but being in a dictionary implies an accepted usage. Again, you're not going to get around the fact that language exists. Even mathematics is "made up", but it still has rules and still requires consensus.
– user14554
2 days ago
" Oxford Dictionary of Chemistry (7th ed.)" Is the problem, why isn't there a single consolidated collect? Furthermore, the existence of that contradicts Janus. Anyone can make up a collection of words, but being in a dictionary implies an accepted usage. Again, you're not going to get around the fact that language exists. Even mathematics is "made up", but it still has rules and still requires consensus.
– user14554
2 days ago
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How do you define what is an “accepted English word”? What is a word? There’s no jury that decides unilaterally what gets to be a word and what doesn’t. Clearly, dodecahedrane is an accepted word to those who know what it is and use it; to the rest of us, it’s an unknown entity. Similarly, to me, words like vrddhi, scree and Rektionskompositum are accepted words that I use in English, though most English speakers would be utterly baffled by them.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Jan 3 at 4:57
"How do you define what is an “accepted English word”? What is a word? There’s no jury that decides unilaterally what gets to be a word and what doesn’t." Well, except there is. Dictionaries are generally what people refer to for the definitions of words. Now, the people who make those dictionaries sift through different real-world usages, but their interpretation is just as biased as anyone else's. Language didn't appear out of thin air, people got together and agreed on definitions and over time it evolved. You can delude yourself into thinking there's no answers, but facts say otherwise.
– user14554
Jan 3 at 5:45
Dictionaries simply record existing usage, they don’t define it. And they don’t record all existing usage. No dictionary claims to be complete, because no dictionary can ever be complete. There is a spectrum of acceptability from words which everybody knows and which are in exceedingly common use, to words used only rarely by a handful of people. Most words fall somewhere in between, and different dictionaries include different sections of those words. I’m not saying there are no answers, just that you need to specify what your standard for wordness is in the question.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Jan 3 at 6:12
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What do you mean by formal word and dictionary? Dodecahedrane appears in the Oxford Dictionary of Chemistry (7th ed.). When new entries are added to dictionaries each year, what do you think of their epistemological status? Was the random collection of letters not a word until it appeared in a dictionary—after which it suddenly became legitimate? Are books that use the word but were written before its dictionary addition still wrong—or retroactively forgiven?
– Jason Bassford
2 days ago
" Oxford Dictionary of Chemistry (7th ed.)" Is the problem, why isn't there a single consolidated collect? Furthermore, the existence of that contradicts Janus. Anyone can make up a collection of words, but being in a dictionary implies an accepted usage. Again, you're not going to get around the fact that language exists. Even mathematics is "made up", but it still has rules and still requires consensus.
– user14554
2 days ago