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Not a Coincidence (lemm.ee)

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[-] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 month ago

Could you elaborate on what makes the name a good one?

[-] Bolt@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I read it as pro-gyn-nova

Pro: as in professional/effective
Gyn: woman (from Proto-Indo-European *gwen), like in gynocology
Nova: new (in many romance languages)

It rolls off the tongue and encapsulates three important aspects. I'm sure there are other readings of it too.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

I think it's more pro like the prefix meaning "for."

So it would roughly mean "for new woman"

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month ago

ah yes, professional woman creation serum.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Also: -ova

[-] emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago

Also made me think of progesterone.

[-] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

Ah, other commenters beat me to saying what I was going to say regarding the semantics.

But also, it’s a unique artificially created word. Nobody is going to confuse it for anything else (granted, that might get murky with pharmaceuticals). It’s searchable with any piece of software that does simple string matching. Also, it isn’t itself a constituent of some other longer word, which helps with that kind of thing too.

The spelling of the word is also phonetically logical. Being a new artificially created word, they could’ve spelled it however they wanted, but they chose the spelling that reads how it sounds. Very few people are going to hear it spoken and misspell it if they’re typing it into some device.

Yeah.. that sums it up