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      Never seen it before, so thank you for linking!

      Damm, 15/24 correct

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          Fret not, my humble slappyfuck, I am poud of our acheivment. It may be a ways from perfection, but against the odds of the coin, we came out on top. Wear your achievment, slappyfuck, wear it with pride.

        • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          18/14 for me! I knew wayyyy more of the drugs than Tolkien characters—80% of my Tolkien answers were lucky guesses!

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    congrats on remembering all the drug names! you must have studied hard!

    *guy that only recognised the pokemon names* yes… thank you

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    The most interesting thing to me is: there has to be a whole subgenre of market research about which syllables sound “sciency”/“medical”/“effective” to certain target audiences of a drug…

    I imagine this is somewhat like in my childhood as a non-native English speaker in the 90’s where most my exposure was through music and then we would make up these words from English sounding syllables that sounded “cool” to us 😄

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      There is! Pharmaceutical companies have departments devoted to coming up with names. There are some legal requirements, you cannot imply your drug is the best or most effective in the name, and it cannot be a name similar to another registered pharmaceutical. Then there is market research on what names resonate the most with consumers, puts them at ease, what they like to hear, and what they would like to say.

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    This gives me the vibe of a meme someone would share on their midwest neighborhood’s Facebook group to “prove” that Medical academia is a scam, right next to a list of “chemicals” they put in your shampoo or pet food or something.

    It’s a funny little snippet but doesn’t “mean” anything. Words are silly and names for things can be hard to invent.