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[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Because they spent years in education and feel it gave them the duty to name things in latinish or greekish ways

The disease cancer could also have been called crab because it was make for the crab-like shape of tumours