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Topic	so is our moon just named moon
wolfy42 05/23/17 7:06:24 PM #22:	ferdk16 posted... BlackScythe0 posted... ferdk16 posted... wolfy42 posted... Um, Luna is the latin NAME for our moon. It's not the name for other moons. Just ours. IE, Saturn does not have a bunch of Luna's orbiting it. Earth's moon is called Luna. It's the only name it's really ever been called I believe. Luna is literally the translation of "moon" in latin derived languages like spanish. In which case Saturn DOES have a bunch of lunas orbiting it, if you're speaking that language. We aren't speaking that language. But that's what Luna means, it's not the name of the moon, it's just saying "moon" in another language. Except your calling it Luna in a language that didn't have names for the other moons yet, no titan etc, so bascially it was the name of only one moon (ours), and therefore it works just fine as a name for just our moon, and that is how it is used. Nobody, not even scientists, call other moons lunas, ever....the only moon that is EVER called Luna is our moon. Therefore, it is the name for our moon, not moons in general. It doesn't matter if it means Moon in another language, many names for things mean something else in another language. Luna has been used as the name of the moon in many languages (not just English), and even if it's not official, it's the name of our moon. IF you want to just call it The Moon, that is fine, if scientists want to say that is it's official name, well, that is silly (it's actually just a definition of what it is), but whatever. The only name I have ever heard our moon called before is Luna, and if you do not have another name (and just like saying a dog with no name is just the dog, does not mean if someone started actually calling the dog by a name, it would still just be the dog, the same can be said of our moon), then the name most used would be the official name. The name most used by far, is Luna (in fact it's the only name that is not applied to ALL moons, so isn't generic). No scientist comes out and states that hotdogs are called hotdogs, or cats are called cats (in fact there is a scientific name for cats, so are cats really called cats?)....scientists do not determine the name of things, they at most determine the scientific name of them (often using latin for such names in fact). The majority of people determine what something is called, or it's name, and that can change over time. Sometimes there is not even a specific name for something and just the generic is used. In this case though, a specific name for our moon has been used for a very long time, and that name....has been, and is, Luna. --- Proud member of the Arv The Great is great fan club!!! Join today by putting it in your sig. <cite>wolfy42 posted [p:879679502] in so is our ... [t:75378715]...</cite> <quote><cite>ferdk16 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>BlackScythe0 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>ferdk16 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>wolfy42 posted...</cite> <quote>Um, Luna is the latin NAME for our moon. It's not the name for other moons. Just ours. IE, Saturn does not have a bunch of Luna's orbiting it. Earth's moon is called Luna. It's the only name it's really ever been called I believe.</quote> Luna is literally the translation of "moon" in latin derived languages like spanish. In which case Saturn DOES have a bunch of lunas orbiting it, if you're speaking that language.</quote> We aren't speaking that language.</quote> But that's what Luna means, it's not the name of the moon, it's just saying "moon" in another language.</quote> Except your calling it Luna in a language that didn't have names for the other moons yet, no titan etc, so bascially it was the name of only one moon (ours), and therefore it works just fine as a name for just our moon, and that is how it is used. Nobody, not even scientists, call other moons lunas, ever....the only moon that is EVER called Luna is our moon. Therefore, it is the name for our moon, not moons in general. It doesn't matter if it means Moon in another language, many names for things mean something else in another language. Luna has been used as the name of the moon in many languages (not just English), and even if it's not official, it's the name of our moon. IF you want to just call it The Moon, that is fine, if scientists want to say that is it's official name, well, that is silly (it's actually just a definition of what it is), but whatever. The only name I have ever heard our moon called before is Luna, and if you do not have another name (and just like saying a dog with no name is just the dog, does not mean if someone started actually calling the dog by a name, it would still just be the dog, the same can be said of our moon), then the name most used would be the official name. The name most used by far, is Luna (in fact it's the only name that is not applied to ALL moons, so isn't generic). No scientist comes out and states that hotdogs are called hotdogs, or cats are called cats (in fact there is a scientific name for cats, so are cats really called cats?)....scientists do not determine the name of things, they at most determine the scientific name of them (often using latin for such names in fact). The majority of people determine what something is called, or it's name, and that can change over time. Sometimes there is not even a specific name for something and just the generic is used. In this case though, a specific name for our moon has been used for a very long time, and that name....has been, and is, Luna. --- Proud member of the Arv The Great is great fan club!!! Join today by putting it in your sig.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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