Earth too!
A lot of people call their cat “cat”.
I’m confident that many more use a name.
Yeah, but each of them uses a different name. If you counted the frequency of the names, you might find out that Dog and Cat are among the common ones.
And just as dull/dumb as moon.
The moon is a satellite…
And could still carry a name. People assign names to all types of machines, aka: satellites.
Yes and the name we gave it was moon. And satellite means object in orbit around a planet. It’s not a necessarily a machine.
Moon is a dull name. It needs something better.
Moon, in Old English Mōna, and in Old Norse Máni, was originally the name for Earth’s moon.
The term kinda just got genericised.
What like Kleenex?
Time for something better. As long as it’s not “McMoonface”.
When I meet a dog whose name I don’t know, I often address him or her as “Dog.” Similarly, if I meet a cat whose name I don’t know, I often address him or her as “Cat.” It’s only polite. It’s a generic but polite form of address, like “Ma’am” or “Sir.”
The same goes with a moon. I call it “Moon” because we aren’t yet on a first name basis.
Tell me, OP - what makes you think that you should be on a first name basis with the moon?
That fucker has followed me around the world peaking into many places I’ve been. I should at least know who’s stalking me.
That it is always around. Just hanging there in the sky. That we’ve spent so many nights together. But I guess it is in a way a long-distance relationship. Also its just a pale reflection of the sun. A rocky relationship, in many ways.
When I see people on the trail I sometimes only greet the dog.
Fluffy?
Mittens?
Paul?Doesn’t look fluffy. Doesn’t look like it would fit my hands like mittens. I’m not a fan of the name Paul.
It’s hard to satisfy you.
Obviously
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You mean Luma
Fly me to Susan
Let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On a Jupiter and Mars
In other words, hold my hand
In other words, baby kiss meNah… don’t like Susan as the name.
What about Karen?
Hell no!
Some guys are named Guy, and some gals are named Gal. I see no reason why a moon can’t be named Moon.
Boring.
First people to colonize her get to name her. Maybe by 2050 we’ll have a nice moon base, and whoever is up there will start affectionately referring to the station and surface as something, and at that point, she’ll finally have her name.
Possibly. Better be more poignant than “Alpha”.
Ah yes our sister plant, Landing Site Final Candidate 0X0054189.
Pronounced Kyle
We should give all the celestial bodies unique IDs instead of names
I think every celestial body we know of already has a unique name/ID
Like a serial number?
Lame
Dear god, don’t let reddit name the fucking moon.
Moony McMoonface
Moony McMoonbutt.
Do doo be-do-do
Mah Nà Mah Moon
Do do-do doNa na na na
Hey hey hey
Good moon
I say we name it “Thatsno”
Hmmm, put it on the ballot.
We did name it.
We named it “the moon.” Or Luna. Or any of these.
Before that, it was a nameless rock.
Moon is inadequate.
English as a whole feels inadequate
Skål 🍻
I like Luna
I feel like there could be Italians having the same conversation in reverse saying “Mi piace Moon”. To most Latin languages Luna is as boring and generic as Moon.
It should be a name that the whole world could use instead of the basic word they use for a natural satellite because that was just the name for the Moon in their language.
That would be fine if it were an official designated name and used by everyone versus Sci-fi writers or poets.
I didn’t know I was a writer, muchas gracias OP
Moon is for unbased germanic languages like yours, no offense. Bar bar bar.
It’s luna in latin, selene in Greek and I think Arabs call it qmar.
It’s just a dumb name in whatever origin you prefer.
I could possibly accept Luna if it were it’s official designation and everybody used it in every context.
If it helps, it’s the official designation and there are some hundreds of millions of dudes that use it in every context
I disagree with the official designation. And the # is impossible to prove.
