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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
Since the character in question would not have been speaking English at all 'in real life' as it were, I see this as a Babel Fish thing, the character's words being translated into words the reader would understand. It would actually be interesting to see how that word was translated if the book was available in other terrestrial languages
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That's how I would see it too. Now a character in a medieval fantasy world using a 20th century scientific term would really disrupt any suspension of disbelief.