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FWIW cosmonaut isn’t Soviet era, it's the Russian term for astronaut. Though I've never understood why in the West we use that essentially untranslated term* w
by positr0n 3y ago
FWIW cosmonaut isn’t Soviet era, it's the Russian term for astronaut.
Though I've never understood why in the West we use that essentially untranslated term* when we don't anglicize the Russian pronunciation of any other jobs. You won't read a news article about Russian "svarshchiks", you'd just translate that to "welder".
* And now taikonaut for Chinese astronauts!