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it was english for me, but badly translated
by modzu 8y ago
it was english for me, but badly translated
- sbuttgereit 8y agoYep. This sentence in the first photo caption caught me off guard... "The Milky Way system, called galaxis, resembles a gigantic spiral with an estimated 200 billion stars. One of them is our sun." I've been an avid astronomy nerd since I was 5 (and I'm almost ten times that age now) and never heard the term "galaxis". The only reference I could find on Google was to the highly acclaimed movie of that name: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113140/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113140/ Now I realize they just didn't translate the word "galaxy" when they translated the text to English.
- krylon 8y agoI think "galaxis" is the ancient latin term. Either way, the word "galaxy" is derived from ancient greek and "milky way" is an almost literal translation.