I agree the names are confusing. But it's just a simple matter of having a diagram nearby to remember which is which. (I think I first saw that diagram on Stack Overflow.)

There have been a lot of times in science when I have trouble remembering names but have no trouble at all understanding the concepts behind these names. I just keep an index card nearby. I noticed this tendency of mine as early as high school. For example, in chemistry I sometimes couldn't remember which is dextro and which is levo, but I understand chirality and know how they are different. In physics I sometimes forget which is the magnetic B field and which is the magnetic H field, though I understand the difference between them. I don't use these concepts often so I haven't internalized the names. I think it's totally alright to have a name–concept dissociation for these.

I completely get it, that the language science has developed works great for it's own practicioners, but not really well for outsiders.

Good luck explaining these "*values" to someone that hasn't touched C++ in a while. Then again other languages have the same peculiarities though. meh.