Talk:Antibiotic resistance

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I couldn't finish my edit summary, but what I wanted to add was that Termed should be created, specifically a page on terminology.

There is a page on terminology, to which termed is redirected. Macdonald-ross (talk) 09:11, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

See 11 in Basic English#Rules of word use: "Use the words of an industry or science". "Termed" and "terminology" is part of the science of linguistics and needs to be used so readers can understand the precision of the topic. Using the term "termed" and then linking it to the concept is the purpose of links and the advantage of a computer online encyclopedia versus a print encyclopedia. Reasons like "it's simpler" is, frankly, ridiculous.96.52.0.249 (talk) 23:54, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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We have discussed the use of technical terms before. They are to be used where the content needs them. In any event, "termed" is not a term in antibiotic research, so it is subject to our general use of simple English. "Called" is a normal part of the verb to call, whereas "termed" is a verbal form derived from a noun. As a general rule in Simple we do not use rarer constructions in over more usual constructions. And "termed" is very much less usual than "called": the British National Corpus of words gives this data from its sample of English texts: [1]

called: 32,404 instances
termed: 960 instances

There is absolutely no comparison, and if you think being simpler is ridiculous, you should look at the title of this wiki. Macdonald-ross (talk) 06:13, 24 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]