I’ve often wondered - who are the Madison Avenue don Draper crews of the prescription drug world? How do they all create these terrible names, and terrible commercials around them? There’s clearly some consistency and yet it’s all insane.
Antidepressants or Tolkien
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
None of the drug names sounded like Tolkien characters to me. I guess native English speakers are at a disadvantage, because they are more likely to consider the names as they would be pronounced in English. The intended pronunciation is usually close to Classical Latin, which means that pronouncing the names in any other European language is likely closer to the truth. And when you pronounce the names in that langua…
So you were 100% correct on the test?
I got 23/24 this time, as I guessed one Tolkien character wrong. The last time I saw this test, maybe a couple of years ago, I got 24/24.
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#6320 out of 24 not too bad.
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#64Two of my favorites of this genre are "Ikea Furniture or Metal Band" and "Drug or Pokemon". I did terribly at the first one since I don't know enough metal I guess, but I aced the latter, despite realizing that "Remoraid" actually does sound more like some sort of join pain cream or something than a pokemon.
Let's not forget one of the first in the genre - "Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer" https://vole.wtf/coder-serial-killer-quiz/
I failed Filesystem Driver Author or Murderer".
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#65Two of my favorites of this genre are "Ikea Furniture or Metal Band" and "Drug or Pokemon". I did terribly at the first one since I don't know enough metal I guess, but I aced the latter, despite realizing that "Remoraid" actually does sound more like some sort of join pain cream or something than a pokemon.
Let's not forget one of the first in the genre - "Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer" https://vole.wtf/coder-serial-killer-quiz/
The first one I saw, and still my favorite, was "Pokemon or Big Data" https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScRsfRHXPTuEXdNvUcI...
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#66I'm really surprised at what a challenge that turned out to be. I was certain I was gonna have no problems distinguishing drugs from Tolkien characters, but I only got 15/24 in the end. Recognized a few obvious brand names and characters, but half the time I had to resort to straight-up guessing. Some of those drug names totally sound like Tolkien characters.
it's actually a due to a research field created/popularized by Tolkien https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonaesthetics all about studying pleasant sounding words, big pharma uses it for naming drugs. "Cellar door" was one of Tolkien's favorite phrases, you can see variations and modifications of it in many fantasy settings >Tolkien, Lewis, and others have suggested that cellar door's auditory beauty becomes more apparen…
> "Cellar door" was one of Tolkien's favorite phrases
Oh cool, so that is where Donnie Darko got it from ("the most beautiful word in the English language")
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#67Did anyone do worse than me? I got 11/24 :S
Read most of Tolkien's books as audiobooks and this is certainly an area where audio is a much worse medium than paper. You just don't get any bells ringing from the looks of words.
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#6918/24 - at some point there was a certain pattern to the medications. But then it broke and I got 4 in a row wrong
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#70Reminds me of the classic Sporcle quiz:
"Drug or Pokemon?"
https://www.sporcle.com/games/LinkinMarc/drug_or_pokemon
(and just as baffling)