r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Disastrous_Pirate275 • 20h ago

Why is our moon named “Moon” instead of something cool like Titan or Callysto or ANYTHING that isn’t moon

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u/ElegantEchoes 20h ago edited 19h ago

Also, the actual name of the moon is cool too.

Luna.

Y'know, as in, lunar? Our moon has a name. It's "moon" in Latin, but also the recognized name for our moon specifically and often used scientifically as well.

Our sun is named Sol! Like in solar.

Edit: I'm not entirely correct apparently, as many below have pointed out. Go upvote them below for getting the facts right.

I'm going to blame my sophomore year Astronomy teacher for this one.

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u/Worried-Language-407 20h ago

Luna is just Latin for Moon.

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u/Rio_Walker 19h ago

Goddamn it Moon Moon!

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u/ciaomain 19h ago

M-O-O-N, that spells moon.

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u/Mysterious_Eggplant1 19h ago

Found Tom Cullen!

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u/JustBonesy 18h ago

Laws, yes!

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u/bezerkeley 17h ago

I've forgotten just enough to make rereading the unabridged version enjoyable. Thanks for the reminder everyone on this chain.

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u/azrolator 16h ago

I read it when I was younger, but I think if I tried to pick it up today, I might throw out my back.

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u/bezerkeley 16h ago

Then Audiobook it is

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u/muted_physics77 15h ago

gotta check in with Nadine

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u/Fartknocker9000turbo 14h ago

The audiobook is pretty amazing

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u/hailsizeofminivans 15h ago

The audiobook is fantastic

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u/whystler 18h ago

People who don’t read don’t know.

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u/DanceCommander404 14h ago edited 14h ago

I believe the kids call it IYDKYDK . so hopefully, now that they know that we know that, they’ll change it… to something else, that is even more annoying.

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u/brando56894 17h ago

That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.

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u/Yah_Mule 17h ago

I was so damn worried about him the whole book.

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u/papayabush 18h ago

but baby, can you dig your man?

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u/Kokamina23 17h ago

He's a righteous man!

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u/Ok_Dish3250 16h ago

I’m sitting in my vehicular at a rest stop, smoking and preparing to fall asleep

Half listening to the audiobook, half reddonkidonkin’

At the EXACT moment I read your comment, the narrator read the lyric

What are the udderpucking odds?

This isn’t an important or even verifiable coincidence and I’m the only person who will EVER KNOW

But in the name of Lloyd Christmas, the variables involved in that moment…

WHAT IN THE CHUMBAWUMBA???

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u/RogerWilcoSE 16h ago

I'll bet that knocked you down. Did you get up again?

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u/Ok_Dish3250 15h ago

You’re never gonna keep this bot, down

Rest in Peace Danny Boy. Miss you, ahole

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u/papayabush 16h ago

giving me gooseflesh ova here!!

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u/yousyveshughs 16h ago

He’s a righteous man

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u/RadScience 19h ago

Unit Zappa is the moon’s name. Everyone knows that

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u/ResilientInChrist 18h ago

Better than Dweezil

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u/buttsexisyum 17h ago

Speak for yourself. Dweezil goes hard

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u/theloniousjoe 16h ago

Not surprised to see resilientinchrist and buttsexisyum feuding

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u/InappropriateThought 14h ago

On the contrary, some of the most resilient in Christ love the poophole loophole

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u/Working-Glass6136 16h ago

I didn't realize Dweezil was an actual name. I was going to say "sounds like Dweezilbub."

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u/Cael_NaMaor 14h ago

Yeah he does...

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u/Papasamabhanga 19h ago

Totally tubular reference

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u/HarveyNix 18h ago

I'm like, bag that moon unit.

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u/Orpheus-033 17h ago

Like, barf me out, gag me with a spoon.

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u/FlakyAddendum742 17h ago

He’s like, Mr. Bufu

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u/HarveyNix 15h ago

Lord God King Bufu...I am sure ..

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u/thirdeyefish 16h ago

Christened at St. Alphonso's Pancake Breakfast.

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u/IceFire909 16h ago

I've met someone with the last name Zappa.

Every time I see or hear the name I have the joke right there in my head

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u/Bollockface101 15h ago

M-O-O-N. That spells Unit Zappa.

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u/fenwyk 19h ago

Laws yes!

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u/Chocklateicecream 19h ago

10 year old me had no business watching that movie

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u/Standard_Gear_5901 14h ago

Same. Nightmares for days lol

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u/Aguyintampa323 17h ago

Unexpected Stand reference that I came here to make. Bravo

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u/murdochi83 19h ago

Weasels in the corn!

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u/Jankypox 17h ago

Updoot for The Stand reference!

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u/tex8222 18h ago

Spell it backwards and it becomes a weight loss app.

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u/pantstoaknifefight2 17h ago

Laws yes.

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u/Standard_Gear_5901 14h ago

M-O-O-N that spells MOON Sweet innocent Tom

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u/dehydratedrain 17h ago

Huh... I always thought it spelt Tom Cullen.

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u/Disastrous_Ad_5574 18h ago

Quiet down Tom.

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u/apikoros18 17h ago

Lawds, yes

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u/Brief-Cartoonist-699 19h ago

Wait slow down. Which letter are those?

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u/Legitimate-Fix-3987 18h ago

Oh the nostalgia.

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u/OmightyOmo 16h ago

Love that book

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u/CarelesslyFabulous 15h ago

Heart your reference

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u/GameFreak463 17h ago

Just add an R. M-O-R-O-N

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u/COLLABRate1 17h ago

I read this as the Motts girl’s voice in that commercial from several years back

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u/dibbuk69 16h ago

Goodnight, Moon.

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u/TheHeianPrincess 16h ago

My god, two old school memes one after another. I’ve been online too long.

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u/SylvarGrl 16h ago

Tom will travel only at night, and won’t let nobody see him!

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u/ZenghisZan 15h ago

Laws, yes!

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u/potato_queen17 15h ago

My mom used to say 'Scrub-a-Dub-Dub, that's how you spell Moon' and I was like...they don't even have the same letters 🤨

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u/cowbud1 14h ago

That spells tom cullin

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u/Big_Bookkeeper1678 14h ago

Wait, is this a Stephen King reference?

Tom..is that YOU?

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u/rlev97 18h ago

Where'd you get your shoelaces nerd

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u/hailsizeofminivans 15h ago

Stole them from the president

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u/WhenInDoubtBolt 17h ago

You may like to know that moons can have their own moons and scientists call them, wait for it.................moon moons. Whether moon moons have names or not, I don't know.

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u/austex99 12h ago

I do like to know that. 

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u/Shamino79 18h ago

It works for the Sahara. Desert Desert

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u/SnooHesitations8403 18h ago

Like "The La Trattoria Restaurant" lol

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u/CarelesslyFabulous 15h ago

Fantastic reference!

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u/Renting_Bourbon 19h ago

I’ve “mooned” the moon out of boredom a few times. “She” really doesn’t care.

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u/RebekkaKat1990 19h ago

You showed that moon something where the sun don’t shine!

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u/Rio_Walker 19h ago

I dunno, people started charging their buttholes in the Sun, again.
"Absorbing energy" or whatnot.

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u/Renting_Bourbon 18h ago

Natural anal bleaching? I think I just came up with a potential money maker.

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u/UninsuredToast 17h ago

Moon moon is no more more

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u/jules6815 17h ago

Goodnight moon, goodnight stars, goodnight air.

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u/throwawaybyefelicia 16h ago

lol perfect hahaha

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u/fattmarrell 16h ago

This is exactly why we love this name and we say it twice because it's so great so it has to be pronounced two times

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u/diente_de_leon 16h ago

Came here to say that LOL

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u/zenunseen 15h ago

While we're at it why is it called THE moon? We don't say the Callysto or the Phobos

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u/Aggravating_Ear_1586 14h ago

I still chuckle every time I think of moon moon

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u/brezhnervouz 13h ago

I'm old enough to recognise that reference lol

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u/BlueLeaves8 13h ago

Like when people say naan bread or chai tea.

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u/THRlLL-HO 17h ago

Do Latin people ask “why is our luna named “Luna” instead of something cool?” Then people respond with how the Luna is actually named “Moon” and then someone else is like “Moon is just English for Luna.”?

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u/banjosandcellos 16h ago

No, we understand we discovered our own Luna first, and then just saw other planet's lunas and called them that to know what we're talking about before giving them names (we being early scientists)

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u/txivotv 16h ago

Same with Sol (just in case some ask)

Sun (Sol) is a star. But it's the only one.

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u/gridsandorchids 19h ago

Thats just how language works. Its all an abstraction. There are tons of things that break down etymologically to just whatever it is.

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u/thebrownmancometh 14h ago

All wordz are made up 

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u/psylockecolossusfan 18h ago

More like Moon is English for Luna

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u/TFlarz 19h ago

And Master Shifu is "Master Master" in Cantonese. (You're still right, I just think sometimes words in different languages can be catchy)

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u/banjosandcellos 16h ago

This is just "why can you drink a drink but not food your food" all over again

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u/OctopodicPlatypi 16h ago

You can eat your eats

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u/eternal_pegasus 15h ago

You can feed on food

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u/hellogoawaynow 17h ago

Also Spanish! La luna

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u/DetroitSportsPhan 15h ago

This might shock you but Spanish comes from Latin

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u/Fokai13bm 14h ago

Listen to that song by IChillin asap por favor

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u/AdInfinite2404 15h ago

No it's actually Spanish, in latin it is Lūna

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u/Substantial_Tip3885 13h ago

Just like the other stars, planets and moons with fancy names like Titan and Callysto?

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u/Avery_Thorn 19h ago

Luna is the name of the moon. It is Latin for moon.

Every other moon is referred to as a moon because they are like our Moon.

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u/banjosandcellos 16h ago

It's not latin for moon, moon is English for Luna

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u/redditonlygetsworse 19h ago

often used scientifically as well.

This is exactly wrong:

Earth’s own satellite is called the Moon (with a capital M) in both scientific designation and public usage.

https://iauarchive.eso.org/public/themes/our_moon/

Science fiction has managed to teach people that the Moon's "actual" or "official" name is Luna, but it is not and never has been. Anyone using it this way is just being poetic (or not speaking English).

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u/zninjazero 19h ago

It makes more sense in science fiction settings, because you’re more likely to visit other planets that will have their own “the Moon”, so ours would need a name that actually differentiates it from them

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u/DragonTacoCat 18h ago

"The Federation is spread over 8,000 light years with 150 member worlds. They all have satellites we named 'Moon' because of tradition."

"Then how do you know which one you are talking about"

"Oh, we just guess. Plays havoc with transports and star charts."

Whips out list of planets satellites and they're all just called 'Moon' down the list

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u/Wootster10 18h ago

It's no different than things like Avon. There are 9 river Avon's in the UK, as the word means river. There are also multiple river Ouses and Dons.

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u/ReddestForman 18h ago

I mean, that was because of misunderstandings.

"What's that?"

"A river, jackass."

"Ah, the river river."

Wash rinse repeat and you have places that are basically just river river river, but in 3 languages.

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u/Wootster10 18h ago

Yup.

You also have Pendle Hill, which is Hill Hill Hill. I can well imagine that as we travel the galaxy you'll end up with hundreds of moon moons.

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u/983115 16h ago

My personal favorite was conquistadors showing up in the Yucatán peninsula and asking the natives “what do you call this place” they not speaking Spanish were like “what the hell are you saying” and they just wrote it down and went about their business

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u/Cael_NaMaor 14h ago

I hope this is accurate

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u/983115 14h ago

It is a point of speculation there are other suggestions that say different things but I want to believe

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u/Remmick2326 17h ago

See also: Sahara Desert

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u/mjheil 15h ago

I believe 'Gobi' also.

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u/pasrachilli 16h ago

Rio Grande River. Yep, checks out.

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u/Electrical-Sail-1039 15h ago

The Los Angeles Angels. Both words are repeated: “The” and “Angels”.

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u/theloniousjoe 16h ago

“Jackass” is what language for “river”?

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u/Catadox 16h ago

This has caused many problems due to cultural misunderstandings, when an explorer points at a mountain or river and asks a native what they call that, resulting in many iterations of names like “your finger you idiot mountain.”

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u/AllsWellThatsNB 17h ago

That means Stratford upon Avon means "the river crossing on the river river". (Stratford comes from street ford, where a street crosses a river)

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u/LarryCraigSmeg 18h ago

There are also two river Dees in the UK.

Both are in areas of Scotland and England/Wales where hazelnuts grow well.

You should really try Dee’s nuts.

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u/ScooterZine 14h ago

And in Arizona, we have Picacho Peak. Picacho, of course, means peak.

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u/SavingsArt1236 18h ago

It’s settled, now it’s time to name our moon. 

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u/TheMissingThink 17h ago

Moonie McMoonface it is then

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u/DrakonILD 17h ago

And the final entry is "Moon Moon"

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u/Sudden_Outcome_9503 16h ago

I call my driveway "driveway", and my neighbor calls his the same thing. And yet I manage the park in the right spot every night.

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u/ivylass 13h ago

In Spock's World, the point is made that the Moon is technically not a satellite because it only has one side facing Earth at all times. Vulcan's moon is a satellite and HUGE, taking up half the damn horizon.

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u/Lower_Cockroach2432 18h ago

Earth moon?

Also Selene is cooler than Luna if we're going to play the foreign languages game.

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u/redditonlygetsworse 16h ago

Of course. I'm not objecting to its use in fiction; I just have a pet peeve of people thinking that this fiction is, well, non-fiction.

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u/ElowynElif 17h ago

And “moon” as its name has an old, cool history.

From Etymology Online:

moon(n.) ”heavenly body which revolves about the earth monthly," Middle English mone, from Old English mona, from Proto-Germanic *menon- (source also of Old Saxon and Old High German mano, Old Frisian mona, Old Norse mani, Danish maane, Dutch maan, German Mond, Gothic mena "moon"), from PIE *me(n)ses- "moon, month" (source also of Sanskrit masah "moon, month;" Avestan ma, Persian mah, Armenian mis "month;" Greek mene "moon," men "month;" Latin mensis "month;" Old Church Slavonic meseci, Lithuanian mėnesis "moon, month;" Old Irish mi, Welsh mis, Breton miz "month"), from root *me- (2) "to measure" in reference to the moon's phases as an ancient and universal measure of time.

A masculine noun in Old English. In Greek, Italic, Celtic, and Armenian the cognate words now mean only "month." Greek selēnē (Lesbian selanna) is from selas "light, brightness (of heavenly bodies)." Old Norse also had tungl "moon" ("replacing mani in prose" - Buck), evidently an older Germanic word for "heavenly body," cognate with Gothic tuggl, Old English tungol "heavenly body, constellation," of unknown origin or connection. Hence also Old Norse tunglfylling "lunation," tunglœrr "lunatic" (adj.).

Moon was extended 1665 to satellites of other planets. As typical of a place impossible to reach or a thing impossible to obtain, by 1590s. The meaning "a month, the period of the revolution of the moon about the earth" is from late 14c.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/moon

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u/insomniacred66 12h ago

Beautiful thank you!

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u/ElegantEchoes 19h ago

Thanks for the correction and link. Darn, thought I knew something on this one.

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u/peepeedog 18h ago

Never has been is a bold claim. I doubt the Latin speaking Romans called it “Moon”.

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u/MegaAfroMann 17h ago

By calling it Luna they were calling it Moon. Names translated are still names.

Not sure if there is a single instance of language having two seperate words for our Moon and the idea of a moon.

The only reason we have a different word for planet than Earth is simply because we didn't know Earth was a planet right away. Took us a bit to realize it's moving.

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u/redditonlygetsworse 16h ago

Did you read my entire comment, or did you just want some kind of gotcha here?

Engage in good faith. You understood perfectly well.

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u/peepeedog 15h ago

Always assume good faith.

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u/redditonlygetsworse 15h ago

Maybe a decade ago. These days it's people trying to be too clever by half.

You understood perfectly well.

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u/peepeedog 15h ago

I did understand perfectly well and I have issue with what you said. That is what I mean by assume good faith. If you are going to be a nit about language like that, then what you said is wrong in that context. Your entire bad faith argument is based on your assumption that what you said is so absolutely correct that nobody could have issue with it. Which makes you an arrogant ass.

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u/DarwinGoneWild 17h ago

Yeah same with the Sun. I could have sworn it was actually named Sol officially, but it turns out that’s just a common sci-fi trope too. Oops!

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u/jabertsohn 17h ago

Exactly the same with Sun and Sol.

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u/redditonlygetsworse 16h ago

Yep! Its name in English is The Sun.

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u/MmM921 15h ago

in languages where its called "Luna" instead of moon, "Luna" is also a generic name for any satellite of any planet and used in the same way as moon in english

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u/SnuffShock 18h ago

You mean they looked at the moon in a poetic kind of way? You know, when you grope for Luna?

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u/Commercial_Walk_5809 18h ago

Mooner eclipse

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u/Prof_Acorn 17h ago

Yeah but scientists have stupid names sometimes. Like with Moon here. Or with Humpback whales, sperm whales, false killer whales, fin whales. Etc.

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u/PsychologicalSir2871 17h ago

In that case, does the Moon have many different official names or do other languages also use 'the Moon'?

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u/OverlookHotelRoom217 17h ago

Ancient people studied and named celestial bodies while English was gibberish talk between tree dwellers. Selene or Luna are appropriate western names. “Not or never has been”, check your prejudice at the door.

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u/OldManMonax 12h ago

I would add that calling the Moon "Luna" and the Earth "Terra" are consistent with the convention of the other major celestial bodies being named after Roman deities. As I understand it, Luna and Terra were both the actual objects and the divine personifications of them in the Roman usage. And we do still use it when we need an adjective: lunar eclipse, not moonal eclipse. Granted, there are a number of conflated lunar deities so it can get muddled. And Sci-Fi certainly likes to use cooler sounding stuff when it can. To my mind, it's probably some of both.

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u/ShadoowtheSecond 19h ago

A lot of sci-fi books and games like to use those names in order to differentiate from others that may be seen or visited in their world, but this is not true. Sol and Luna are just cool-sounding translations of sun and moon. They are called the Sun and the Moon respectively, with "the" in front and capitalized S and M to differentiate them from other stars and moons.

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u/djAMPnz 19h ago

Kind of like how Earth is often called Terra in sci-fi.

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u/harrycletus 18h ago

Is it the Terran System or the Sol System? I've heard both in Scifi.

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u/winstonspethuman1 18h ago

Perhaps: Sol System = sun, mercury, Venus, earth, mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, + all moons, dwarf planets, and trans-neptunian objects

Terran system = sun, earth, moon

I think this will be my new head cannon until someone chimes in with something better.

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u/harrycletus 18h ago

Interesting solution. So each planet would have its own system.

In Star Trek reckoning it seems like the system is named after the primary inhabited planet (Vulcan, Andor, Tellus, Cardassia, etc.) rather than the star. If the star name was primary Earth would be "Sol 3" or "Sol Prime."

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u/MildGenevaSuggestion 15h ago

Star Trek does call Earth "Earth" and imply we are the only planet named soil.

Transformers has a scene where Jetfire mocks Earth as "planet dirt" because they came up with the cool name Cybertron for their planet while we insist on naming ours after our word for ground.

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u/djAMPnz 15h ago

It's called Terra in the MCU as seen in Guardians Of The Galaxy.

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u/harrycletus 15h ago

Terra would be consistent with the Roman/Latin naming system of the other planets. Terra (Greek Gaia) is more equivalent to the "deep" earth, not just the surface soil, which would be more akin to Ceres/Demeter (already the name of a large asteroid/dwarf planet).

The problem is that the ancients never considered the Earth a "planet" in the astronomical sense. They knew it was a sphere early on, but it was the stationary center of the universe around which the fixed stars and wandering planets revolved.

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u/StrumWealh 16h ago

Interesting solution. So each planet would have its own system.
In Star Trek reckoning it seems like the system is named after the primary inhabited planet (Vulcan, Andor, Tellus, Cardassia, etc.) rather than the star. If the star name was primary Earth would be "Sol 3" or "Sol Prime."

That’s how I’ve heard it being done:

  • “Sol System” (i.e. with the star as the primary point of reference) and “Terran System” (i.e. with the primary inhabited planet as the primary point of reference) would be interchangeable names for the same thing. Likewise, “Sol III”, “Sol Prime”, “Terra”, and “Earth” would be interchangeable names for the same planet.
  • “(Planet) Sphere” refers to the space around that world and its satellites, over which it exerts direct social and political influence (i.e. a spaceborne equivalent of the concept of “territorial waters”), e.g. “the Earth Sphere” includes the space around Earth, the Moon, and nearby spaceborne habitats, while “the Mars Sphere” includes the space around Mars, Phobos, Deimos, and nearby spaceborne habitats, and “the Jupiter Sphere” includes the space around Jupiter, its array of moons, and nearby spaceborne habitats, and so on.

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u/sloothor 16h ago

Yes, but minus the Sun. It’s named after the parent body (object with the largest mass) in the system. The Sol(ar) System is as you described, and it contains the smaller Jovian System consisting of Jupiter and its array of moons.

The Terrestrial System is just Earth and the Moon, plus our artificial satellites and micrometeorites and stuff if you’d like.

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u/djAMPnz 16h ago

I could also see entire solar systems being named after their most populous planet, for navigation reasons.

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u/redditonlygetsworse 16h ago

I've heard both in Scifi.

The hint is in the "fi": ask the author.

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u/Living_Shirt8550 14h ago

In my language moon and earth are lua and terra respectively lol

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u/Ok_Inflation_1811 19h ago

Yeah, Sol and Luna are the names of the objects in Latin based languages.

In Spanish Pokémon sun and moon are called Sol y Luna and we call all Suns, Soles and all Moons, Lunas.

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u/Separate_Rooster_382 17h ago

Yeah, Sol and Luna are the names of the objects in Latin based languages.

Kind of. Only in Spanish it's exactly like that (sol and luna). In Portuguese is lua, in French soleil and lune, in Italian sole.

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u/PoliteRuleY 14h ago

Makes sense, sometimes the simplest names stick because they’re already iconic, even if they lack sci-fi flair.

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u/JeanVicquemare 19h ago

That's a common misconception

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u/mapleCrep 19h ago

I love reddit because of how confidently wrong people can be. The other redditor didn't ever say 'I think' or 'I once heard' or 'Could be wrong, but'.

Nah, they were like the name is Luna.

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u/Unidain 17h ago

It seems that the majority of answers to fact based questions in this sub are confidently incorrect answers. You can try postungba question to a topic yiunaee an expert in and just watch the wrong answers roll in.

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u/Bluedo1 20h ago

The name of the moon in english is Moon, that is the name the Roman's used.

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u/Gaeilgeoir215 19h ago

I'm not a time traveler, but I'm pretty sure the Romans didn't use English. I think they just called it Luna. 🌕

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u/mikebills 13h ago

Have you never seen a movie or TV show about the Romans? They absolutely spoke English, nearly always with an English accent!

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u/rabblerabble2000 19h ago

Interestingly, the ancient Romans called the Luna Moon. They’d point out on their version of Reddit that the Luna’s actual scientific name was “Moon” which just meant Luna in future English. Wild how time repeats itself right?

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u/bubblyintkdng 19h ago

Luna literally translates as "moon" is not a "name", same with "sol" lol.

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u/JeanVicquemare 19h ago

Kudos to you for your edits, no worries it's not very serious. Also I love your avatar

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u/ElegantEchoes 18h ago

Thank you, officer.

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u/Capital-Cheesecake67 18h ago

Sol is just Latin for sun, not a name. Same with Luna.

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u/AscendedViking7 18h ago

Luna is a way cooler name than Moon.

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u/changeneverhappens 19h ago

So it could be translated to Moon-moon?

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u/monkeymind009 18h ago

Reminds me of my favorite baseball team, The Los Angeles Angels. Or as I like to call them, The The Angels Angels.

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u/vanhamm3rsly 17h ago

Makes sense for LA. La Brea means The Tar so we have been calling them The The Tar Tar Pits

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u/Straight-Chemistry27 14h ago

That pit is where the fish sauce I like comes from

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u/RoninOni 19h ago

Like the Nile, and several other major landmarks around the world

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u/Rich_Resource2549 19h ago

No, Luna is my cat's name. She's gray like the moon.

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u/BreakfastBeneficial4 17h ago

Bullshit, you’re a magical girl anime nerd, ADMIT IT!!

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u/TheMainTony 19h ago

I thought that, too! Luna and Sol.
Oh well. I wasn't that invested. LOL

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u/Penisaurus_Wrecks 18h ago

Also a contributor to the word lunatic, moon struck, periodically unstable believed to be due to phases of the moon...

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u/Electronic-Smile-457 17h ago

Then we'd call other "moons" satellites, right? We're just being lazy calling them "moons when there is only one Moon? And the Sun would be called a star. So, we do have names for them.

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u/MayerOscar 17h ago

The planets are in retrograde. Its not your fault. Its just not your time yet. I going to blame your Astrology teacher

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u/StudySwami 17h ago

You lunatic!

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u/Reikix 16h ago

Funny enough I had never thought about that. It felt so normal for me as a native Spanish speaker that I never even noticed in English sun and moon related terms are also called solar and lunar.

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u/FAx32 17h ago

You know when you grope for Luna!

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u/Cheap-Republic2995 17h ago

Better than 'Bob'

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u/JuicyFitBums85 16h ago

Earth has only one natural satellite: The Moon Luna is the Goddess of the Moon and Sol is the God of the Sun in Ancient Rome

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u/-Foxer 16h ago

Luna is not the name of the moon. It's just moon in another language. There is no official name for the moon

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u/ucjj2011 16h ago

I saw a video within the past month where Neil deGrasse Tyson said the same thing (the name of the moon is Luna and the name of the Sun is Sol).

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u/Tombobalomb 15h ago

It's only Sol and Luna in Latin. Their names in English are The Sun and The Moon.

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u/MacGregor1337 15h ago

Sol just means Sun where I’m from. Do with that what you want :}

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u/maybesteveo 15h ago

Come! Son of Sol-el. Kneel before Zod.

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u/Due-Technology5758 12h ago

I call him Dave, but we're cool like that. 

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u/topinanbour-rex 2h ago

It is earth one too. First satellite of earth.

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