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January 28th, 2004, 03:11 AM
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Re: What is the Name our Moon?
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January 28th, 2004, 03:43 AM
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Re: What is the Name our Moon?
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 ? 
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January 28th, 2004, 04:50 AM
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Re: What is the Name our Moon?
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As for the moon, we can always call it Daal. 
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January 28th, 2004, 05:13 AM
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Re: What is the Name our Moon?
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Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
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As for the moon, we can always call it Daal.
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Daal. 달. The Korean name for the moon.
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January 28th, 2004, 05:19 AM
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Re: What is the Name our Moon?
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? |
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Re: What is the Name our Moon?
Talk about a hot topic.
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January 28th, 2004, 05:43 AM
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Re: What is the Name our Moon?
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 
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