LogFAQs > #879754457

Most people who actually worry about the names of the moon, sun, and earth tend to prefer latin names. Perhaps because it is a dead language and thus "frozen in time" without worry that it will evolve or otherwise change.

Mind you, this is done a little less for the earth than it is the moon and sun.

But yeah, humanity, right? If we had evolved to live in the water, what do you bet we would have named our planet "Wet" or something? Its kind of amusing, what with just about every fictional sci-fi race happening to name their own world something that does NOT translate to a synonym of "ground" or "earth."

Actually, on that note. Have there actually been any fictional aliens, ever, who actually named their planet a name that, in their language, means "earth" or "ground" or something like that?
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