I think so.

And to complete my idea: With no termination resistor, the cable would behave a bit like a capacitor (which is more or less what you already explained to me, I think), and that would affect the signal's fall time. And, by consequence, it would also limit frequency and possibly also introduce noise.

 

Have you worked for a Japanese company? Conversational English translations were good but technical translations were a nightmare. We hired in-house translators to read the original texts and had a few Japanese-American engineers who were still baffled on how to say the English equivalent. I hear that today most of the translations are not done in Japan so you have a three language tower of babel with sometimes funny results.

Warning NSFW but funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6-B2TJN8UQ

Oh my... that was so twisted, and politically incorrect at the same time.... I loved it!

 

Yes, but to their credit they do get better and better over time.