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[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 143 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 20 points 2 days ago

No one really knows. Some even say it doesn't exist.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 94 points 2 days ago

The correct answer is: "I forgot, you should show me."

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 67 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (15 children)

To be fair, it would be easier if English had kept the English terms for anatomy.

But for some reason everyone decided to only use Latin and Greek derived words.

Like seriously. Nearly every time I look at Wikipedia for anything, English articles only ever use scientific terms hardly anyone will find useful.

Example:

Wolf's entire biological taxonomical tree from species to order. Both the translated German Wikipedia title and the English one:

Species: Wolf <> Wolf

Genus: Wolf- and Jackal-like <> Canis

Tribe: True Dogs <> Canini

Family: Dogs <> Canidae

Suborder: Doglike <> Caniformia

Order: Predatory animal <> Carnivora

Ask someone what "Caniformia" is and most would probably think you're talking about some region on the US West Coast. Ask someone what "Doglike" refers to and most would probably guess reasonably correct.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The fact that the entire medical industry does this. I like how ChubbyEmu on Youtube will do the vocabulary resurrection "Hyponatremia. Hypo meaning low, natra meaning sodium, emia, presence in blood. Low sodium presence in blood" and then he'll use the English phrase for the rest of the video. "Because he had low blood sodium..."

[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The entire medical industry does this so that in every language on the planet they are talking about the same thing and know that they are talking about the same thing and that there hasn't been a translation error. Hyponatremia is hyponatremia no matter what language you speak.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Meanwhile the aviation industry uses English worldwide.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago

And naturally not everyone wants to pick English for the common language. If we're picking one language people use over others, you'll have French people wanting theirs picked and so on. So easier to pick a language that's not the native language of anyone to sidestep that fight.

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[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I disagree, using Latin terms means that all technical terms stay the same across languages.

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

Where are the smaller lips?

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[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Ask someone what "Caniformia" is and most would probably think you're talking about some region on the US West Coast.

You're obviously talking about noobs who aren't watching TierZoo 😎

[–] GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I got confused because i initially read that as Worf instead of Wolf, and i thought that it was weird trying to make a point with a Star Trek character.

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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

To be fair, it would be easier if English had kept the English terms for anatomy.

Feel free to have a look-see at what that could look like. Taxonomy isn't "taxonomy" anymore, it's "setlore." Find that easier to understand?

https://anglish.fandom.com/wiki/Lifelore ("Lifelore" is biology)

It's an "Anglish" wiki, based on Poul Andersson's "Uncleftish Beholding", a text that's trying to see what English would look like if it didn't have latin borrowings as much, just the teutonic words.

Here's some atomic theory ie "uncleftish beholding".

The firststuffs have their being as motes called unclefts. These are mighty small: one seedweight of waterstuff holds a tale of them like unto two followed by twenty-two naughts. Most unclefts link together to make what are called bulkbits. Thus, the waterstuff bulkbit bestands of two waterstuff unclefts, the sourstuff bulkbit of two sourstuff unclefts, and so on. (Some kinds, such as sunstuff, keep alone; others, such as iron, cling together in chills when in the fast standing; and there are yet more yokeways.) When unlike unclefts link in a bulkbit, they make bindings. Thus, water is a binding of two waterstuff unclefts with one sourstuff uncleft, while a bulkbit of one of the forestuffs making up flesh may have a thousand or more unclefts of these two firststuffs together with coalstuff and chokestuff.

https://anglish.fandom.com/wiki/Uncleftish_Beholding

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[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 55 points 2 days ago (2 children)

To be fair, the majority of women, who have said bits, don't know what they are either, most seem to think it is all vagina.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 34 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I mean, colloquially it is.

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you are brave enough?

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Indeed, but it’s as accurate as saying ones scrotum is dick.

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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Aren’t most of the external parts actually the vulva? I thought the vagina was just the tube…

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

It is, but properly naming things isn't something Internet users are very good at.

[–] frog@feddit.uk 51 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Is it that one over there? I can't really tell since it is not visible with this light pollution. Even though there is only one Libra constellation, you have have been confused by Ursa Major and the Ursa Minor, where some stars are very visible. Oh you said labia."

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Labia? I don't think that section of the sky is visible this time of year. Or, maybe it's behind the full moon.

[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 27 points 2 days ago

It’s southern hemisphere for sure

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 47 points 2 days ago

I'm not Jewish, so I don't know much about menorahs in general.

[–] Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I too quiz my partner on the anatomy of genitalia when we're hanging out

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Wait, what, you don't have a cloaca?

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 30 points 2 days ago (2 children)

For some guys it might well be light years away.

[–] ne0n@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So weird to hear this. Like the whole area just isn’t that big, surely eventually most people stumble into it even if they aren’t making an effort…

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

I very rarely come across a labia minora either at work or at home, but maybe I'm not working in the right place or something.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yeah after hearing the "can't find the clitoris" and "it doesn't exist" jokes for so long, I was kind of shocked by how easy it was when I finally got down there...

I do believe that there are men who have this issue, but it seems kind of fucked up that the woman would just complain about it rather than take 3 seconds to show them. It's not like it's well hidden or anything.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/debgordon/2023/10/21/90-of-americans-feel-unprepared-by-sex-education-new-survey-shows/

I mean, the state of sex education in the US is abysmal, misinformation and just no information is so rampant that it's rather silly to expect the average young adult to know the detailed anatomic names.

In my life so far, I've dated plently of women who didn't know anatomical names, or with a few, even basic signs of what a vaginal health problem looks like.

With one, I had to deduce that her described urinary problems were possibly actually bacterial vaginosis when I uh, also noticed the smell.

She got extremely pissed off, thinking I was insulting her, thinking I was saying she had an STD/STI... a week later she's back from the doctor and yep, I was right, now she's on antibiotics.

How many women can, off the top of their head, identify the vas deferens, cowper's gland, or know that testicular torsion is even a thing?

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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I couldn't tell you the Latin names for my own bits, either.

Edit: that said, I might not know all the street names, but I can still drive you home, and I'm not averse to asking for directions.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 23 points 2 days ago (4 children)
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[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I see all these stupid boyfriend/stupid husband stuff, and I can't help but think maybe my ex wife was just jealous of her friends that had stupid men in their lives.

And maybe I'm just overqualified for relationships. I mean, shit, that was the advice my brother gave me: "I get along with people because they're much smarter than me." One of the first red flags I remembery ex wife telling me was "you know you don't have to be so smarty all the time."

Ok, no, I can't even lie to myself that well, can you imagine? Being overqualified for dating lol

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[–] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's so much better to offer a demonstration.

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

The search still go on ✨

[–] JoShmoe@ani.social 14 points 2 days ago

He must’ve forgot which hemisphere he was on. Common mistake.

[–] bcgm3@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Uno Reverse Card:

  • Tell her to point to the Vas Deferens
  • "We're not so different, you and I"
  • High-five
  • True gender-equality finally accomplished
[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i didnt know we were getting quizzed. crap. is that the uh inner lips?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bingo! You win a heated bath mat!

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

holy hell im goated cant believe i remembered that

ill have to put that in my dating profile "correctly guessed what labia minora is"

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If I were you, I'd changed "guessed what is" to "identified".

Signals an analytic, inquisitive, and curious mind, rather than someone who happened to fortuitously win a game of "pin the minora on the labia".

Though admittedly that IS a hell of a game when played right..

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[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I know it says bf (which I will assume means boyfriend)

But I'd you read the studies:

45% of men aged 18-25 had never approached a woman in person for a date

29% of all men said they never approached a woman in person for a date before

27% said it had been more than one year since they approached a woman for a date

Source(s):

https://datepsychology.com/risk-aversion-and-dating/

https://x.com/DrThomasAG/status/1674391128215367682

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/darwin-does-dating/202305/the-potential-negative-impact-of-unwanted-singlehood

Pair that with the quality of education and it is of no surprise that a boyfriend doesn't know what they never knew existed in the first place

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

idgaf what "science" says.

It's. 👏 Still. 👏 A. 👏 Planet. 👏

[–] Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Easy: it was once on the island of Lesbos, but it’s now in its rightful place in the British Museum and there is shall remain!

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