On the naming of XM Artifacts, Catylists, Anomalies and WMDs
On the naming of XM Artifacts, Catylists, Anomalies and WMDs
Like agent Ravidor pointed out, the name "techthulu" is a portmanteau of "technology" and "Cthulu", the great old one from Howard Lovecraft's horror mythos. I don't really care for it.
As a biomedical scientist, I prefer descriptive names to eponyms, but they're hard to get rid of once they've become established. For example: you'll never replace Parkinson's with "rigid dyskinesia" or "paralysis agitans". Progress is being made, however. What was once "Mongolism" thankfully became known as "Down Syndrome" and is now known as Trisomy 21 in most clinical settings.
A big part of science if nomenclature. People everywhere should be able to know something by name, not dependent on having read the Call of Cthulu to infer that the suffix "-thulu" this is something huge, alien, and evil. Recent information suggests that this thing, whatever it is, isn't necessarily "evil". As we understand these structures better, the name should reflect that.
Likewise most past anomalies are also eponymous. Persepolis, Obsidian, Shonin... But the anomalies themselves follow a pattern, and we recognize that. We know what a "shard anomaly" is, what "clusters" are. And we have enough examples that we could start categorizing them.
I'd like to see if the community could suggest better naming conventions for anomalies and events, artifacts and prime objects, and maybe states of XM-sensitivity or integration?
Thoughts?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1962881/
Like agent Ravidor pointed out, the name "techthulu" is a portmanteau of "technology" and "Cthulu", the great old one from Howard Lovecraft's horror mythos. I don't really care for it.
As a biomedical scientist, I prefer descriptive names to eponyms, but they're hard to get rid of once they've become established. For example: you'll never replace Parkinson's with "rigid dyskinesia" or "paralysis agitans". Progress is being made, however. What was once "Mongolism" thankfully became known as "Down Syndrome" and is now known as Trisomy 21 in most clinical settings.
A big part of science if nomenclature. People everywhere should be able to know something by name, not dependent on having read the Call of Cthulu to infer that the suffix "-thulu" this is something huge, alien, and evil. Recent information suggests that this thing, whatever it is, isn't necessarily "evil". As we understand these structures better, the name should reflect that.
Likewise most past anomalies are also eponymous. Persepolis, Obsidian, Shonin... But the anomalies themselves follow a pattern, and we recognize that. We know what a "shard anomaly" is, what "clusters" are. And we have enough examples that we could start categorizing them.
I'd like to see if the community could suggest better naming conventions for anomalies and events, artifacts and prime objects, and maybe states of XM-sensitivity or integration?
Thoughts?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1962881/
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