Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet? From: GUEST Date: 31 Oct 06 - 08:33 PM How about Bill? Yeah, I like that. Planet Bill. Or maybe Ed. |
Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet? From: Mooh Date: 31 Oct 06 - 08:29 PM Okay, you didn't like Planet Mooh. How about Moohland? Moohworld? Or just Mooh? Peace, Mooh. |
Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet? From: Joybell Date: 31 Oct 06 - 06:38 PM It is up the other way, McGrath. Cheers, Joy |
Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet? From: John O'L Date: 31 Oct 06 - 05:45 PM Willabarrabac? |
Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 31 Oct 06 - 05:32 PM And the Aussies would probably want to turn it the other way up too... |
Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet? From: Joybell Date: 31 Oct 06 - 05:29 PM Please don't let us Aussies rename it - It will be Didyabringagrogalong or something. Second thoughts about the Aus. connection - how about Gert as in "Our home is Gert by Sea" Cheers, Joy |
Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 31 Oct 06 - 04:19 PM Mudcat (for short). |
Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet? From: jeffp Date: 31 Oct 06 - 04:14 PM The Planet of the Chief of the Mudcat Editing Team. |
Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet? From: Peace Date: 31 Oct 06 - 04:05 PM Dave's not here! |
Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet? From: GUEST Date: 31 Oct 06 - 03:52 PM Dave. It's always seemed like a Dave to me...... |
Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 31 Oct 06 - 03:46 PM That's from teh Latin family of languages (aqua etc) - but it's the same "wa" sound in either case. Sanskrit (which is a slightly more distant relative language) has "vaar" |
Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet? From: Ebbie Date: 31 Oct 06 - 03:19 PM I guess that is true for a number of physical or at least geographical things. Like water and wasser. Don't know how agua came into being but I'm sure I could look it up. |
Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet? From: Wolfgang Date: 31 Oct 06 - 02:49 PM Ebbie, yes (from Google pictures, which is my trick when I don't know the language). It seems that for two very large language families Earth and earth are the same words. (1) In the romanic languages (Latin, Italina, French, and possibly all the others like Spanish etc) Terra and terra use the same word. (2) In all the Norse and German languages too both words are the same (and come from a God(ess?) for earth. The old Norse word is Jörd which can be found in all modern Norse languages and, of course, both Erde and Earth are just distant variants of "Jörd". The first vowel sound of "earth" is nearly identical with the first vowel in Jörd Wolfgang |
Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet? From: Bill D Date: 31 Oct 06 - 01:22 PM Here you can look up how aliens would name us |
Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet? From: Ebbie Date: 31 Oct 06 - 01:19 PM Ooooh- the earth moved! |
Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet? From: Amos Date: 31 Oct 06 - 10:57 AM Ebbie, is this on the inside of the house or the outside? If the inside the Swede would not discuss it in public. A |
Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet? From: Ebbie Date: 31 Oct 06 - 10:55 AM How about 'Pluto'? I think it's available. I took a look at the different names and have a question. Do those names translate to 'Earth' or some other mutually agreed upon name? For instance, we say that we moved some earth from one side of the house to the other. Would a Swede say he'd moved some Jorden? |
Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet? From: Mooh Date: 31 Oct 06 - 10:52 AM Planet Mooh. I want to be your King! Peace, Mooh. |
Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 31 Oct 06 - 10:28 AM Not to my mind. Great planet. Wouldn't live anywhere else. |
Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet? From: Amos Date: 31 Oct 06 - 10:27 AM How do you say "home of the fuckups" in Galactic? A |
Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet? From: Dave Hanson Date: 31 Oct 06 - 10:25 AM Shithole springs to mind. eric |
Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 31 Oct 06 - 10:02 AM Of course it's only "Earth" in English. This page has the name for it in a few dozen others. (As well as the name of the other planets.) I rather like the Indonesian - "Matahari". And the Irish "Grian" has a nice ring to it. |
Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet? From: Geoff the Duck Date: 31 Oct 06 - 09:24 AM Dirt? Quack! GtD. |
Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet? From: Hand-Pulled Boy Date: 31 Oct 06 - 08:53 AM '3rd rock from the sun'? Enjoyable series. |
Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet? From: Rapparee Date: 31 Oct 06 - 08:53 AM If you must, how about Sol 3? Or Terra? Or Gaia? Or "You-Know-Where!"? |
Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet? From: GUEST Date: 31 Oct 06 - 07:57 AM Really it's like a giant paintball. |
Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet? From: Bunnahabhain Date: 31 Oct 06 - 07:48 AM Well it's not rock for very far down, as thatt generally stops at the bottom of the lithosphere. Beyond that, the names get less snappy, as we tend to try and describe it in terms of what it's made of, and we have educated guesses at best for most of it... as for a name, either 'complicated' or 'a right mess' |
Subject: RE: BS: New name for our planet? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 31 Oct 06 - 06:19 AM The water's just a thin skin on part of the surface. Underneath it's earth all the way. Or maybe rock. "Home" might be the best name. |
Subject: BS: New name for our planet? From: The Shambles Date: 31 Oct 06 - 06:14 AM As compared with the amount of water - there is actually very little earth - so perhaps a more accurate name for our planet would be The Sea? Especially as all this blue water is what makes our wourld look so beautiful from a distance (cue for a song) and it is our oceans and fresh water which seems to set our planet aside from many others. |