Old man calling up from below: HEY YOU GIRL WHAT IN THE SAM HILL ARE YA DOING Me, in coveralls, 200 ft up, painting word "TERRA" over "EARTH" on the big sign: I'm changing the name! Old man: YER WHAT Me: we colonized a new planet, so the old name goes. That's the rules sorry
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
CS Lewis had a peculiar attachment to "Tellus" and "Tellurian" for his Space Trilogy, possibly because of all the established synonyms of "Earth" that one is the least familiar and positive-sounding
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
E. E. Smith used those in the Lensman books as well, though I don’t know if he had a particular reason for it.
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Replying to @iphone_venez @Nymphomachy
It sounds cooler
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