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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 00:05:20 No.76944546 View Reply Report Delete

Quoted By: >>76944721 >>76945830 >>76946466 >>76947524 >>76947860 >>76953953 >>76954628 >>76954924 >>76957793 >>76959129

>People from Krypton are Kryptonians
>People from Mars are Martians
>People from Thanagar are Thanagarians
>People from Khundia are Khunds
>People from Earth are humans

Explain this shit. Also, by this naming system, shouldn't every species on Korugar be called Korugarian, instead of just the one species that happens to be humanoid?

Bird-people on Thanagar called Thanagarians, while lizard-people on Thanagar are called Lizarkon, for what reason?

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 00:07:09 No.76944636 Report Delete

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Earthlings

Here's your reply

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 00:08:35 No.76944706 Report Delete

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Earthers/Terrans

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 00:08:44 No.76944713 Report Delete

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Humans are pieces of shit that try to segregate themselves from others who even look slightly different.
They are also referred as Earthlings.
There are many reasons why anon.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 00:08:57 No.76944721 Report Delete

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>>76944546
people from terra are called terrans. it's just that we have lots of names for our planet and for our species.

it's like how the klingon homeworld is usually q'onos, but could also be written kronos, and sometimes gets called kling, after its capitol city. and how there are two pronunciations of kah'less (That or worf learned his religion entirely from books and mispronounced part of it)

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 00:09:09 No.76944730 Report Delete

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How could you post a picture of Brainiac and not include Colu/Coluans?

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 00:14:10 No.76944988 Report Delete

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>All non-humans are called aliens.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 00:24:48 No.76945435 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>76946319 >>76953989

The bigger crime is that humans makes more sense than Martians or Kryptonians
If we were earthlings so wouldn't every goddamn creature on the planet.
The only way to clear that up, everything needs to be "Species of Planet"
Humans of Earth
Dogs of Earth
Asari of Thessia
Krogans of Tuchanka
Time-lords of Gallifrey
Daleks of Skaro
It would get even more complicated when like in Star Wars, several intelligent species occupy a planet
>Humans/ Gungans on Naboo

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 00:30:51 No.76945713 Report Delete

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"Earth" isn't even the word for the planet in languages used by the majority of people on the planet. Besides, I think we'll take that name, or the equivalent in another language one we unify more as a species

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 00:33:19 No.76945830 Report Delete

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>>76944546
We're called Earthicans and don't you forget it.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 00:36:16 No.76946002 Report Delete

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Presumably they all have names for themselves in their own languages, and we call them by generic planetary descriptors because that's what they are to us.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 00:36:57 No.76946037 Report Delete

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>>76945713

...Do you even know of Terra.

Stupid terranians

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 00:37:29 No.76946060 Report Delete

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Because rather than identifying every individual species, galactic standard is to be identified by your planet. That's why shit like terrans and earthlings get used. Not to mention humanity is typically the teenage special snowflake race, so of course they would try to rebel against being labeled like everybody else.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 00:39:18 No.76946165 Report Delete

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Gah! The inefficient cladistics of all of your primitive species is maddening! It is aggravating my autism as I try to precisely and consistently label my bottles!

I will continue to use my own system, in which each bottle is organized by numbers that refer to it's galaxy, star, planet's position of orbit, and longitudinal-latitudinal-altitudinal coordinates on that planet's surface. Species will be arranged by similarity of their genetic sequence.

Cataloging bottle 19X-9912-4-47°62′26″N 2°6′15″W, containing species ATTTAGTGGTACCTCTACGGATA....

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 00:40:18 No.76946216 Report Delete

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That's why a lot of the times aliens actually call humans "Earthlings" or "Terrans." It's just a matter of generalization for the sake of conversation. No other species from Earth is important enough to call by name usually so it doesn't really hurt to call the dominant sapient species by the name of their homeworld. Consequently, Kryptonians and Thanagarians probably have an actual word for what they call themselves in their own native language, much like human/homo sapiens for us.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 00:41:04 No.76946274 Report Delete

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>>76946037
We're called "earthers" according to Bendis.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 00:41:56 No.76946319 Report Delete

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>>76945435
Not necessary.

The dominant species of the planet is generally regarded as the proper. Earthlings/Terrans means humans (of Earth). Martians means what ever the dominant species of Mars is of that particular medium.

Gungans are not the dominant species of Naboo (any more). Nabooans now means the humans of Naboo.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 00:45:31 No.76946466 Report Delete

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>>76944546
When a civilization reaches a sufficient level of development to be relevant on the cosmic scene, they realize the original name of everyone's homeworld is a synonym for ground, so they adopt the convention of naming their homeworld after themselves to avoid confusing the universal translator.
No, it's not a perfect explanation if you go by root words from a dead language, but don't tell any aliens that, or else they might choose a name for you.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 01:05:44 No.76947524 Report Delete

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>>76944546
Earthlings.

Flash is an Earthling, Wonder Woman is an Earthling, Aquaman is an Earthling etc. They're from Earth but not necessarily the same species.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 01:08:48 No.76947638 Report Delete

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'Human' comes from 'homo' (man) which eventually goes back to the Indo-European word which essentially means Earthling.[/spoiler[
Now that you know it, you can't unknow it!

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 01:10:43 No.76947735 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>76947802 >>76947847 >>76954007 >>76954201 >>76957632

What's better?
>Earth, Earthlings, Sun, Solar System, Moon
>Terra, Terrans, Sol, Sol System, Luna

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 01:12:28 No.76947802 Report Delete

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>>76947735
I like all in different contexts.

Terra and Terran being ancient names for Earth and Earthlings, mainly used by aliens who remember Earths ancient history etc.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 01:13:46 No.76947847 Report Delete

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>>76947735
I feel that Earth/Earthlings give that Sci-fi feeling and Terra/Terrans give that Fantasy Sci-fi feeling.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 01:14:11 No.76947860 Report Delete

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>>76944546
Enthocreticism. Names are the tales of the Victors...

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 01:18:50 No.76948036 Report Delete

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>>76946216
in fact arent thanagarians called hawkmen in DCAU?

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 01:20:07 No.76948092 Report Delete

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>>76947638
doesn't homo mean 'same' not 'man' though? adam means man, and it also means earth.. but homo means same, as in 'same as us'

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 01:24:10 No.76948262 Report Delete

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>>76948092
That's another 'homo', derived from a Greek root, while the 'homo' for human is from Latin.

Homonyms.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 01:26:27 No.76948342 Report Delete

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>>76948262
>Homonyms.

SAME -ONYMS OR MAN -ONYMS??!

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 01:28:06 No.76948408 Report Delete

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>>76948342
Same, demonyms are people names, like Englishman, or Scotsman, or Korean, or Earthling...

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 03:33:42 No.76952478 Report Delete

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>>76946274
We're called Earthers according to the fucking Glorft

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 03:45:23 No.76952671 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>76952766 >>76953289 >>76953509

>Every planet on our system is named after a Roman deity
>Earth instead of Gaia

Explain this shit.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 03:50:50 No.76952766 Report Delete

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>>76952671
Ancient man knew that you'd be autistic about it on the internet so they thought it'd be quite the giggle.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 03:59:23 No.76952897 Report Delete

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Perhaps this is a matter of Galactic courtesy. Perhaps on Krypton the Kryptonians had a genuine name for their race (Snapplethorps, let's just say).

It's just that Snapplethorp means precisely nothing to other species, so the name "Kryptonian" is useful identifier.

The audience is rarely privy to these names because they'd be autistic about it.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 04:19:51 No.76953289 Report Delete

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>>76952671
Gaia is Greek, dumbass.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 04:32:39 No.76953509 Report Delete

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>>76952671
Anon we do refer to our own world as Terra since the world is not a god in the skies above us.
When half the planets got their names humans didn't think about earth being the same thing as the colorful dots in the sky. We only kept the naming convention in more recent times just to make everything the same style.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 04:43:39 No.76953642 Report Delete

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>>76948342
>manonyms
Sounds like one of those words like mansplaining
>Ugh, I can't believe Ricky tried to use one of his manonyms when a perfectly good defemalenition was already being used.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 05:01:15 No.76953953 Report Delete

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>>76944546
>Bird-people on Thanagar called Thanagarians, while lizard-people on Thanagar are called Lizarkon, for what reason?
Why are baboons and gorillas not just monkeys?

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 05:04:00 No.76953989 Report Delete

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>>76945435
Gallifreyans are Gallifreyans. Time Lords are just the upper class.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 05:05:12 No.76954007 Report Delete

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>>76947735
>Terra, Terrans, Sol, Sol System, Luna

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 05:17:24 No.76954143 Report Delete

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In a story I'm writing, I'm having the aliens all refer to Earth as Humana.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 05:22:58 No.76954201 Report Delete

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>>76947735
Terra, Terrans, Sol, Sol System, Luna because while there are many moons, solar systems and suns, there is only one sol and sol system

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 06:17:22 No.76954628 Report Delete

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>>76944546
People from Earth are Earthicans

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 06:19:42 No.76954637 Report Delete

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>>76944721
This, so very much this.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 07:13:57 No.76954924 Report Delete

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>>76944546

Humans are from Hum.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 09:16:12 No.76955772 Report Delete

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>>76946319
I think they're just referred to as a proper noun.
"The Naboo"

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 09:20:32 No.76955813 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>76959991

Wait until we colonize other planets properly. Then we can decide on the naming

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 09:37:05 No.76955943 Report Delete

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So is Brainiac's drug of choice Coca Kolu?

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 09:56:55 No.76956093 Report Delete

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The lizard dudes are not native to Thanagar. Thanagarians were an aggressive expansionist people, and would bring large amounts of slaves from other planets to live in the lower caste on Thanagar.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 10:45:31 No.76956574 Report Delete

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>>76944636
BOOM.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 10:51:34 No.76956647 Report Delete

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>>76947860
Hate to be that guy but you mean ethnocentrism?

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 11:57:07 No.76957632 Report Delete

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>>76947735
>Gaia, Gaians, Helios, Helian System, Selene

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 12:06:13 No.76957793 Report Delete

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>>76944546
>People from Terra are Terrans
>"Human" refers to any sentient life-form that falls along a similar developmental path to Terrans

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 13:16:11 No.76959129 Report Delete

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>>76944546
People from Thessia are Asari.
People from Kronos are Klingons.
People from Vegeta are Saiyans.
People from Aether are Luminoth.
People from Falayalaralfali are Ariloulaleelay.

It's not a strict rule, it's just something that tends to happen to spacefaring species. When they're stuck to one planet, there's no point in identifying yourself by your planet; when you're exploring a galaxy full of aliens, it can be convenient.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 13:57:20 No.76959991 Report Delete

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>>76955813
>i will not be alive to see terrans reach the stars
it hurts

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