What is the Name our Moon?

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by JurijD:
Actually you´re overly english-centrical guys. Our moon is simply called "The Moon".

No, actually I am not being english-centrical. How can you say I am being english-centrical when what I am providing is not the english word? Although if I had been provding the english word for the name of the moon it would be understandable since my post was in english. It's not being "english-centric" of me to make Posts and not provide the translation for every possible language on earth. If the person reading my post cannot read english, they probably aren't reading this forum, or they have some tool available to them to do the translation. The fact that Luna and Sol are latin words is only because most scientific terms are latin words. The reason scientists use latin words for things is so they can talk to other scientists and be understood without being accused of using "english-centric" terminology.

As I said, "The Moon" is not the proper name for our moon, regardless of what language you are speaking. It is not technically incorrect, but it is not scientifically specific. Luna is the correct scientific nomenclature for our moon. It would be as similer to if people on the forum refered to you a "The Slovenian". It would not be technically incorrect, but it's not your name. And if there are others from Slovenia on the forum, we might not know who people are refering to. When you refer to the moon as "The Moon" everybody knows which moon you are talking to, because everyone hearing you is from earth. At least we think. But that doesn't make it it's name.

A roža is a rose, JurijD.

[ January 27, 2004, 12:53: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Rollo]

Originally posted by JurijD:
Actually you´re overly english-centrical guys. Our moon is simply called "The Moon"...

yep, you are right on this one.

Luna and Sol is simply the Latin names for Moon and Sun.

Perhaps we need another name for the moon: How about Bob?

[TerranC]

Originally posted by Rollo:
... or Bob

No. Bob is the name of a shipset. A grand shipset. The grandest shipset. It shall never be the name of a simple moon such as the moon. It won't be naming the moon bob; at least not while I'm around.

As for the moon, we can always call it Daal.

[ January 28, 2004, 01:11: Message edited by: TerranC ]

[oleg]

Actually, more people use Luna than Moon.
Luna is the name in Spanish, Italian, Russian, Ukranian and many more Languages. All togeter, South America and Eastern Europe population exceed English language natives.

Of course, when humanity becomes one nice democracy, we will use the Chinese name. Anybody knows it ?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

As for the moon, we can always call it Daal.

huh???

[TerranC]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:

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As for the moon, we can always call it Daal.

huh???

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Daal. 달. The Korean name for the moon.

[Baron Munchausen]

Note TerranC's location, or rather former location... South Korea. A quick google reveals that Daal is indeed the Korean word for 'Moon'.

Searching around a bit I've found too many names for the Moon in Chinese to be certain which one is the right one. It's called by lots of poetic names, like the name of the Moon Goddess, Chang E, or 'Toad Hall', Chan Gong, because of a folk-legend about it being a place where toads live. Apparently the 'generic' name is Yue but I'm just not certain. And anyway, Chinese uses the same small group of syllables (20 or so) to represent several thousand characters so in truth the name of the Moon in Chinese is a character which we cannot reproduce here without some special code. Does this BB system support Chinese?

[Atrocities]

Talk about a hot topic.

[Will]

The way I always thought of it, english speakers would refer to our moon as 'Luna' and our sun as 'Sol' to reinforce that the reference is to our particular moon or sun, rather than some other moon or sun. The whole capitalization thing doesn't quite work with verbal communication

Ok, so 'Luna' and 'Sol' are really the Latin words for moon and sun (and thus, since Latin is the root of several Languages, they are also the same in various other Languages). So what? The point is, it is a way to specifically designate our particular satellite and star. A bit of redundancy won't kill you

[narf poit chez BOOM]

A bit of redundancy won't kill you

'and thankfully, the first detonater had rusted out.'

'mumble, mumble.'

'so why am i in the trauma ward? well, it had a second detonater.'

well, redundancy nearly killed that fictional character.