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>I wish we'd stop using "Moon" as the name of Earth's moon, since "moon" is not a proper noun anyway and there's hundreds of moons in our system. "Luna" is a mu

by calgoo 2y ago

>I wish we'd stop using "Moon" as the name of Earth's moon, since "moon" is not a proper noun anyway and there's hundreds of moons in our system. "Luna" is a much better name. I mean sure I agree, but Luna means moon in Spanish / Latin so its not really that much better (just like Sol just means Sun in Spanish :) ). I get that we named them according to the Latin names, but they are still not that "unique" if you consider other languages apart from English.

shiroiushi 2y ago
>I mean sure I agree, but Luna means moon in Spanish / Latin Sorry, what I really mean is that I think we should call the moon "Luna" in English (so we don't confuse it with other moons). In Spanish, they might want to call it "Moon" instead, for the same reason. Edit: in addition, with my proposal, our moon's domain will be .lun.ter.sol, rather than .moo.ter.sol which would make people think of cows.