Lidocaine and prilocaine have the "-caine" suffix to denote their chemical similarities to cocaine, this despite the word "cocaine" being "coca"+"ine", so the "-caine" suffix is a gibberish half-word plus a normal suffix. It's kind of dumb and nonsensical, but it works.
Language is a weird thing. Neologisms are like memes, you never know which one is going to catch on until you're neck-deep in it, and you can't stem the tide. Good heavens, it's all I can do to push back against the greengrocer's apostrophe.
Well, that's because cocaine is peculiar to the coca plant, and "cocaine" is just the name of that substance itself, and novacaine and the rest are actually based on cocaine, so that's basically Latin at work.
And a "meme" was originally just meant to denote ANY idea that can spread (like a gene, after which the concept was modeled and named). Dawkins referred to ideologies as "memeplexes", or collections of (presumably related) memes, but alas, I know damn well that most fumducks that (mis)use the word never read the book that mentions them in the first place.
For example, the Ten Commandments would be a memeplex, with each Commandment being a meme (It's wrong to kill, it's wrong to commit adultery, etc.)
Lidocaine and prilocaine have the "-caine" suffix to denote their chemical similarities to cocaine, this despite the word "cocaine" being "coca"+"ine", so the "-caine" suffix is a gibberish half-word plus a normal suffix. It's kind of dumb and nonsensical, but it works.
Language is a weird thing. Neologisms are like memes, you never know which one is going to catch on until you're neck-deep in it, and you can't stem the tide. Good heavens, it's all I can do to push back against the greengrocer's apostrophe.
Well, that's because cocaine is peculiar to the coca plant, and "cocaine" is just the name of that substance itself, and novacaine and the rest are actually based on cocaine, so that's basically Latin at work.
And a "meme" was originally just meant to denote ANY idea that can spread (like a gene, after which the concept was modeled and named). Dawkins referred to ideologies as "memeplexes", or collections of (presumably related) memes, but alas, I know damn well that most fumducks that (mis)use the word never read the book that mentions them in the first place.
For example, the Ten Commandments would be a memeplex, with each Commandment being a meme (It's wrong to kill, it's wrong to commit adultery, etc.)