&gt; Most names should be Teutonic, following the spirit of languages like Norwegian, rather than the elliptical vagueness of Romance languages like English. Norwegian has more words like tannlege (literally &quot;tooth doctor&quot;) and sykehus (literally &quot;sick house&quot;), and fewer words like dentist and hospital (which don&#x27;t break down into other English words, and are thus confusing unless you already know their meaning).<p>Not only is this vaguely racist; it&#x27;s also wrong, which is worse.<p>- English is, in fact, a Germanic language.<p>- Using more specific words (and English has <i>lots</i> of words) is the <i>opposite</i> of vagueness. A &quot;sick house&quot; could be a house that contains sick people, a house that is sick itself (rotten beams?), a noble family (&quot;house&quot;) whose fortunes have turned, etc. A &quot;hospital&quot; is, unambiguously, a facility where the sick are given professional care. Of course, in a different timeline &quot;sickhouse&quot; could have been the word for &quot;hospital&quot;, but then it would have been a word of its own, taking up the same amount of space in your mental dictionary as &quot;hospital&quot; does.<p>- Romance languages are, arguably, <i>less</i> vague even in their grammar. You know that thing where you just jam two words together and call it a day? You see very little of that in Romance languages. Instead, you put a preposition in there, which forces you to be more specific about the exact way in which the two things are related.<p>- Of course, a &quot;Teutonic&quot; fan would then say that this is a problem with Romance language, and the ability to jam words together is what makes a language truly rich. (Because it&#x27;s easier to form new words? In which case, see item 2.) And sure, it&#x27;s ok to have preferences. But if you&#x27;re going to be a Grammar Nazi, or a literal Nazi, you better have a clue what you&#x27;re talking about.