18-11-2016, 08:11 AM
@JKP,
don't get me wrong. This forum can of course decide to adopt its own terminology (as I already wrote).
However, in the first message it was written that this was not the purpose.
In any case, every blog owner can of course also adopt his or her own conventions.
I did want to point out that the term 'consensus' seemed out of place, and I also don't think one
should try to argue whether any existing conventions are 'right' or 'wrong' since nobody knows.
It's a matter of preference.
Clearly, the names that have been used over the last decades were chosen because that it what
the illustrations look like. Nobody ever claimed that this is what these sections are about.
In most cases, it seems hard to argue that these would be misnomers, though I'll be the first to agree
that the pharmaceutical section is an exception, and whoever coined that name did use a lot of imagination.
This is the easiest one to wonder about.
If anyone wants to argue that the zodiac section should not be called zodiac section, well, I can't take
that proposition too seriously, but that's just my opinion.
If there's any term I never particularly liked or understood, it's the term "gallows characters"....
don't get me wrong. This forum can of course decide to adopt its own terminology (as I already wrote).
However, in the first message it was written that this was not the purpose.
In any case, every blog owner can of course also adopt his or her own conventions.
I did want to point out that the term 'consensus' seemed out of place, and I also don't think one
should try to argue whether any existing conventions are 'right' or 'wrong' since nobody knows.
It's a matter of preference.
Clearly, the names that have been used over the last decades were chosen because that it what
the illustrations look like. Nobody ever claimed that this is what these sections are about.
In most cases, it seems hard to argue that these would be misnomers, though I'll be the first to agree
that the pharmaceutical section is an exception, and whoever coined that name did use a lot of imagination.
This is the easiest one to wonder about.
If anyone wants to argue that the zodiac section should not be called zodiac section, well, I can't take
that proposition too seriously, but that's just my opinion.
If there's any term I never particularly liked or understood, it's the term "gallows characters"....