Quotes About Terminology

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.

when you're writing programs you need to be able to name your identifiers well. And your prose has to be good. I'd feel lost without a good dictionary.

People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another.

I'm a vocabulary nerd.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

I'm black—not African American. That's a term I don't like. I was born in America and I've never been to Africa. It's an absurd term. A term that Jesse Jackson crammed down the throats of the media. It's ridiculous.

U moje vreme ako je neko bio lud, bio je lud, i nismo se služili nau?nom terminologijom da bismo to ublažili.

Some people call it global warming; some people call it climate change. What is the difference?

I don't believe in terminologies like 'lead role' or 'supporting role' or 'cameo role,' etc.

Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality.

Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.

Sink-searching meant I had to expand my French vocabulary yet again. There aren't just sinks in France: there are éviers, lave-mains, bacs à lave, bassins, vasques, and lavabos. Each type of sink has its own raison d'être.

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

When I was very young, I was suitably impressed to learn that, appearances notwithstanding, the whale is not a fish. Nowadays these questions of classification move me less; and it does not worry me unduly when I am assured that history is not a science. This terminological question is an eccentricity of the English language. In every other European language, the equivalent word to 'science' includes history without hesitation.

Some kid was shoving muggles. Marijuana, Dad. We call it—" "I know the names," Byrnes said.

Anthropology provides Archer with terminology to expose the ferocity and, more important, the hypocrisy characterizing his prosperous, upper-class social community.

In my own writing, I avoid 'female' and try to say 'woman' because I feel that the word 'female' has connotations of not just biology but also non-human mammals. The idea of 'female' to me is more appropriate for a female animal.

some libraries are no longer called libraries but are known as Learning Resource Centers or Media Centers. Librarians, however, are still generally known as librarians and not yet as Learning Resourcists or Media Centerists, though this may be only a matter of time.

Every problem of medicine is a problem of language, and this operation was a malapropism.

an obsession with self-definition can become a trap if that is all we think about, all we debate. If liberation terminology becomes an end in itself and our only end, it ceases to be a tool of liberation. Terms can be useful, even vital tools, but the house of La Raza that is waiting to be built needs many kinds.

The learned scientists named ev'ry blamed thing they come across, an' gener'ly they picked out names as nobody could understand or pernounce.

read Jack Welch's books about General Electric and his management approach and never encounter the phrase "GE jerks." Yet that is a term I first heard from a now-retired GE senior executive who reported directly to Mr. Welch.

This almost never happens, outside of the realm of scientific terminology (which is obviously a domain populated by sadists with no regard for language).