[quote=@Arawak]
Well, it's because making up tons of names for things makes shit confusing.  Making up a name for something that doesn't exist in the real world makes sense, but calling some sword from a fantasy culture a Dikkinshwab despite it being basically a machete with different degrees of sharpness and ornamentation is just pointless.  Sort of like why the legs of a insect, despite being very different in design are still called legs.  Or why a alien with a gun based on accelerating clay particles extremely fast may just be called a "particle rifle" instead of a "Zvynpc Iscc".
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I have a rule that if a paragraph contains more than three made-up words -- including weird-enough names -- I stop reading. At some point, ENGLISH already.