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[–] 34 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

The most interesting thing to me is: there has to be a whole subgenre of market research about which syllables sound "sciency"/"medical"/"effective" to certain target audiences of a drug...

I imagine this is somewhat like in my childhood as a non-native English speaker in the 90's where most my exposure was through music and then we would make up these words from English sounding syllables that sounded "cool" to us 😄

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    There is! Pharmaceutical companies have departments devoted to coming up with names. There are some legal requirements, you cannot imply your drug is the best or most effective in the name, and it cannot be a name similar to another registered pharmaceutical. Then there is market research on what names resonate the most with consumers, puts them at ease, what they like to hear, and what they would like to say.

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