Comment on We should name the moon. Most people don't call their pets "dog" or "cat".

• Leviathan@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I feel like there could be Italians having the same conversation in reverse saying “Mi piace Moon”. To most Latin languages Luna is as boring and generic as Moon.

  It should be a name that the whole world could use instead of the basic word they use for a natural satellite because that was just the name for the Moon in their language.

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah well most Latin language speakers need to chill, so they can handle a little generic moonverbiage

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• MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That would be fine if it were an official designated name and used by everyone versus Sci-fi writers or poets.

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  • Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I didn’t know I was a writer, muchas gracias OP

    Moon is for unbased germanic languages like yours, no offense. Bar bar bar.

    It’s luna in latin, selene in Greek and I think Arabs call it qmar.

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    • MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s just a dumb name in whatever origin you prefer.

      I could possibly accept Luna if it were it’s official designation and everybody used it in every context.

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      • Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If it helps, it’s the official designation and there are some hundreds of millions of dudes that use it in every context

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