Sometimes that is true but in other cases it doesn't really change much. I think the important thing is that there is a good reason for whichever word the creator uses.
So, thanks to Dronon's link which supplements my terrible ability to remember examples, we have "chance cubes" from Star Wars. Those are just dice. Does "chance cubes" communicate anything? No. At most its supposed to make things seem more alien but really it's just a bit silly. Harmless but silly.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
Sometimes that is true but in other cases it doesn't really change much. I think the important thing is that there is a good reason for whichever word the creator uses.
So, thanks to Dronon's link which supplements my terrible ability to remember examples, we have "chance cubes" from Star Wars. Those are just dice. Does "chance cubes" communicate anything? No. At most its supposed to make things seem more alien but really it's just a bit silly. Harmless but silly.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~