For some reason I thought the world would be called something other than "Earth".
48629: Deliverance - Monday, October 27 2025 - 9:07 AM
@Tom
Blame popular fiction for that one.
Most known languages, living as well as extinct, have a name for Earth deriving from their name for soil or from the name of a mother goddess identifying with the Earth, that was then used interchangeably to describe the personification and the planet.
But all too often, that goes out the window in fiction, where exotic names are the norm, and it is so much easier if every planet has its own unique name in common use, and not only in astrological terms (such as Earth being Sol III).:D
48630: Deliverance - Monday, October 27 2025 - 9:54 AM
...oops.
Astronomical, not astrological. :D
48631: GistOfSpirit - Monday, October 27 2025 - 12:42 PM
The way the letters look, if you turn them upside down they read "Held" instead of "Help".
48632: Tear-a-bite - Monday, October 27 2025 - 7:15 PM
@GistOfSpirit
I'm not sure I understand your point. Wouldn't they read dl3H upside down?
Or if you vertically flipped them rather than rotated, then they would be Helb.
48633: RandomFan - Monday, October 27 2025 - 10:02 PM
@GistOfSpirit
I mean, the D is still backwards when you turn them upside down. They didn't accidentally write "helq"
(Also, with an uppercase H and an uppercase-style E, that makes sense. Though it is kinda weird they wrote it as "HElp", now that you mention it.)
48634: Syhkane - Monday, October 27 2025 - 11:39 PM
For some reason I thought the world would be called something other than "Earth".
@Tom
Blame popular fiction for that one.
Most known languages, living as well as extinct, have a name for Earth deriving from their name for soil or from the name of a mother goddess identifying with the Earth, that was then used interchangeably to describe the personification and the planet.
But all too often, that goes out the window in fiction, where exotic names are the norm, and it is so much easier if every planet has its own unique name in common use, and not only in astrological terms (such as Earth being Sol III).:D
...oops.
Astronomical, not astrological. :D
The way the letters look, if you turn them upside down they read "Held" instead of "Help".
@GistOfSpirit
I'm not sure I understand your point. Wouldn't they read dl3H upside down?
Or if you vertically flipped them rather than rotated, then they would be Helb.
@GistOfSpirit
I mean, the D is still backwards when you turn them upside down. They didn't accidentally write "helq"
(Also, with an uppercase H and an uppercase-style E, that makes sense. Though it is kinda weird they wrote it as "HElp", now that you mention it.)
@GistOfSpirit
you mean Helb?