I'm not talking about technical terms such as "hydroxychloroquine", "hemispherectomy" or "thrombocytopaenia"...
Rather, there are certain words which I use a lot and have come to see as normal... for example, "potentiate" and "dysregulate". Like Microsoft Word, Yahoo Answers has just underlined them in red and says that I have "5 misspelling(s)" ... HAH!
"Potentiate" and "dysregulate" appear on every other page in medical textbooks and journals. Hence, I don't suppose I'm the only person who has begun to use these words in non-medical contexts such as...
"This new strategy will hopefully potentiate the peace process in the Middle East", or "dysregulation of currency will result in economic collapse".
These sentences look so normal to me... why does spell check have a problem with them? o_O
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... Normal from a linguistic perspective, that is. I don't really believe any strategy can *potentiate* the peace process in the Middle East!
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To Jesus C: Hahaha, I mean in English... terms that you'd personally consider to be everyday language in English =p