I am renaming the Sun to the Daystar.
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He's more American now, though. We have lots of famous people, too. c:xdgt said:
Like, oh, PETER CULLEN.
VOICE OF OPTIMUS PRIME AND EEYORE.
you know, its thinking like this that got pluto's planethood revoked so i say screw you, its the sun to me and their is nothing that you guys can say to change my mind
pluto will always be a planet in my eyes
pluto will always be a planet in my eyes
I tried to get people to start calling years "Starturns," (cookie for the reference), but it's not working out.
Working on it. We've already declared we'll need daily sacrifices of cookies to TSGOitStLLaC to appease his almighty wrath. We ceremoniously eat said sacrifices, crafted in his image, to absorb their power.King Toasty said:
(if this catches on, i feel there should be some sort of cosmic reward for starting a meme)
Linquistically, okay.
Rationally, probably not. It takes lonqer to say, which, in modern Enqlish, is a fatal flaw.
Perhaps we shall call the sun Phoh, as it is awesome-soundinq and I just made it up.
the sun is a blaspheminq centaur and linquistically you cannot prove me wronq
Rationally, probably not. It takes lonqer to say, which, in modern Enqlish, is a fatal flaw.
Perhaps we shall call the sun Phoh, as it is awesome-soundinq and I just made it up.
the sun is a blaspheminq centaur and linquistically you cannot prove me wronq
I will admit, occasionally when I got outside I find myself thinking "Cursed Daystar!" But, more often, it's just "Gah! Bright!"
Dont be silly, his name is George. And he just wants to be normal. One gets sick of people always worshiping you and studying you and other silly things. Its bad enough that they wont let him go to school! 'you cant come in here George' they say 'you are a gigantic ball of burning hydrogen!'. And this makes George sad because he thinks they are making a subtle reference to his weight, and he is very touchy about that subject. And calling him Daystar wont help. That name has a very large feeling about it. The last thing we want to do is push him over the edge and make him go supernova now would we. All this talk about white dwarfs is leaving a bad impression on him and its making him. So remember, stars have self-esteem to, and name calling like that does not help.
Alright, fine, but only if I get to rename Traffic Lights to "3/7ths of the rainbow electronic stop-go indicators". Deal?
I'm a little late on this, but the people who are saying our Sun's proper name is Sol are wrong. I once considered a career in astronomy and have read several journal articles about astronomy and astrophysics, not to mention a few text books. Never is our Sun called Sol. It's always "the Sun" or "our Sun" if the issue of other solar systems is at hand. And it's always capitalized.
I've heard this said before, that Sol is somehow the proper name in English for our Sun, but I have yet to see any reason to believe this, other than people stating the planets were named after Roman gods so therefore the Sun must be too. Ask anyone on the street and they'll say "Sun", check the dictionary, the Sun is unequivocally the star we see every morning, not any other star.
This whole argument that the Latin way is the "right" way is pretty repugnant to me. Why are the non-Latin roots of our language somehow less valuable? The word Sun has roots in the Old English "sunne" and further back the Old Norse, Old Saxon, and Old High German "sunna". The Latin word Sol has nothing to do with it. Not to mention the use of Latin in the sciences is a huge hurdle for scientists for a number of reasons. The naming of things in science, thankfully, is moving away from that.
Referring to our star as Sol is something SF writers have taken up, and I don't deny the name sounds cool to my English hearing ears. Though my knowledge of Spanish has taken away some of that. To a Spanish-speaking person "the Sun" probably sounds pretty sweet.
I've heard this said before, that Sol is somehow the proper name in English for our Sun, but I have yet to see any reason to believe this, other than people stating the planets were named after Roman gods so therefore the Sun must be too. Ask anyone on the street and they'll say "Sun", check the dictionary, the Sun is unequivocally the star we see every morning, not any other star.
This whole argument that the Latin way is the "right" way is pretty repugnant to me. Why are the non-Latin roots of our language somehow less valuable? The word Sun has roots in the Old English "sunne" and further back the Old Norse, Old Saxon, and Old High German "sunna". The Latin word Sol has nothing to do with it. Not to mention the use of Latin in the sciences is a huge hurdle for scientists for a number of reasons. The naming of things in science, thankfully, is moving away from that.
Referring to our star as Sol is something SF writers have taken up, and I don't deny the name sounds cool to my English hearing ears. Though my knowledge of Spanish has taken away some of that. To a Spanish-speaking person "the Sun" probably sounds pretty sweet.