I see your point. You're saying the sun and moon are actually a star and satellite, and calling them the sun and moon isn't bad. Could I then assume you would feel the same way I do if we called the sun 'the star', and the moon 'the satellite'?bug_of_war said:Read what I said earlier, "calling our star "sun" and our satellite "moon"". The sun is a star, we simply call our star sun, or sol, or sonne etc. So while I believe all opinions are valid, I think your reasoning is flawed because you are calling our star a sun a our satellite a moon, these are simply those objects names, not what they are. My name is Zac, but I am a human being.
I know Wikipedia isn't usually thought of being a sophisticated website, but these will help you understand that your belief that calling the sun and moon, "sun and moon" is bad because it insinuates that they are the only sun and moon is wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun
Can't be bothered clicking, here is the gist:
"The Moon is the only natural satellite of the Earth,[d][7] and the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System"
"The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System."
The one problem I have with that argument is that you basically take a broader term, in this case star and satellite, when in fact they mean the same thing. A sun is a star. At least that's how I've heard it used, though I suppose using it in the place of 'star' came from the name of our sun rather than the name of our sun coming from the term for a star... If that makes any sense. While I suppose this does support the sun, it doesn't work with the moon as I'm fairly sure there has never been another general name for the other natural satellites of the universe.
I still think luna would be a better term for the moon. Titan and Io and all those other moons get their own names, I don't see why ours should be so special (only calling them 'satellites' would also solve the problem, as we are no longer giving our one a preferential title (saying the moon is a satellite, and Titan is a satellite... Rather than the moon is a moon, and Titan is a moon), but most people already feel most comfortable with moon).
In conclusion to my fairly dodgy argument I would also like to point out that luna and sol are much cooler. In my opinion.