Technical terms

[Guest guest]

I was just listening to a commercial for Red Bull energy drink. It was the

one animated commercial where someone was interviewing a scientist studying

the effects of the drink, and the scientist rather comedically begins

talking in what seems like gibberish, while the reporter gets tangled in his

own microphone wire, before the scientist finally goes " Red Bull gives you

wings! " As I listened closely, the terms the scientist was saying were all

valid scientific and/or medical terms that I recognized, having either

worked or volunteered in a hospital since I was 14, having picked up terms

from time to time from that exposure or from my mom, who's a doctor. The

terms he said essentially amounted to gibberish together in the way that was

said in the commercial, which was actually quite humorous, I found, since

each one was a valid term.

That being said, has anyone ever, either by accident, passing by a person as

they said it to someone else, or by listening in on a conversation, heard a

technical term, and recognized it, even if few others did?

Or alternately, have you heard a term for the first time, and then began

hearing it quite often soon afterwards? I remember a number of instances of

hearing a word for the first time, and then soon after that, I'm hearing the

same word being spoken a lot that I didn't notice before. It's also happened

to me with people's names, where I'll see or hear a name I haven't known of

before, and then I'll see it a number of times soon after.

" To be nobody but yourself in a world that is doing its best to make you

everyone else, is to fight the hardest battle anyone can fight. " - e e

cummings

Debogorski

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