#nomenclature

This NBC story refers to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon as a “Trump-appointed” judge. The headline, however, calls her simply a “Trump judge.” Was the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg “a Clinton judge”?

I'm going to make the controversial argument that we should actively and deliberately adjust to calling Covid-19 "The Wuhan Virus." We seem to have instantaneously forgotten that naming viruses

Should each mention of a person’s name in a news article be prefaced with that person’s title, e.g., “Professor” or “Mr.”? I just finished reading the attached NYT article about a political clash between

Starting this off, the most common names of 2020. Girls Olivia Emma Ava Charlotte Sophia Amelia Isabelle Mia Evelyn Harper “funny thing writing this is last two names are the mom from Two & a Half

The op may well be right about this. Either way, I will likely regret commenting on it. But, in my view, it simply doesn't matter that much whether we have a norm of students calling profs by their titles,

We can never reach peak wokeness. There will always be new levels to reach, created by the column-inchers. There is a ratchet effect at work. As the general public catches up, the only way to be assured

There’s a big difference between knowing the name of something & knowing something. Richard Feynman Steepshot IPFS IOS Android Web

I have been here at steemit for a little more than a month and I know how difficult it is for beginners to understand the lingo of the community. I am not talking about names like bandwidth, Stax, witnesses,

ISIS is on our doorstep as we speak, and has committed unspeakable acts of terrorism within our borders. It is not pretty, and to crush this threat we need all the force of our marvelous uniformed military

A history, as I saw it, of the evolution of the evolutionary diet's name. Loren Cordain, a great guy as far as I know, owns the trademark on "The Paleo Diet". Unfortunately for Cordain, "Paleo"

The word bastard used to simply mean "born out of wedlock", but came to mean a ruthless person. It featured in South Park a lot in it's second meaning: "Oh my God! They killed Kenny!"