For some reason I thought the world would be called something other than "Earth".
48629: Deliverance - Monday, October 27 2025 - 9:07 AM
@Tom
Blame popular fiction for that one.
Most known languages, living as well as extinct, have a name for Earth deriving from their name for soil or from the name of a mother goddess identifying with the Earth, that was then used interchangeably to describe the personification and the planet.
But all too often, that goes out the window in fiction, where exotic names are the norm, and it is so much easier if every planet has its own unique name in common use, and not only in astrological terms (such as Earth being Sol III).:D
48630: Deliverance - Monday, October 27 2025 - 9:54 AM
...oops.
Astronomical, not astrological. :D
48631: GistOfSpirit - Monday, October 27 2025 - 12:42 PM
The way the letters look, if you turn them upside down they read "Held" instead of "Help".
For some reason I thought the world would be called something other than "Earth".
@Tom
Blame popular fiction for that one.
Most known languages, living as well as extinct, have a name for Earth deriving from their name for soil or from the name of a mother goddess identifying with the Earth, that was then used interchangeably to describe the personification and the planet.
But all too often, that goes out the window in fiction, where exotic names are the norm, and it is so much easier if every planet has its own unique name in common use, and not only in astrological terms (such as Earth being Sol III).:D
...oops.
Astronomical, not astrological. :D
The way the letters look, if you turn them upside down they read "Held" instead of "Help".