"this monostrophe is a contraverse"
- that one Douglas Adams quote

I feel like these would be great substitutions for a retrofuturistic book.

!worldbuilding@lemmy.world might appreciate this

Populimpery is on the nose.

Ah yes, clearly we are in dire need of an anastrophe as described by Marx and Engels in The Cenonite Chiroplect. Cephality is killing the planet, the ergate need to rise up.

This is breaking my brain

I recently learned a few Greek/Latin facts. Might as well share them here.

Ulysses and Odysseus

Ulysses and Odysseus are the same guy. Odysseus is his Greek name, Ulysses is the Latin translation. Originally, only the Latin versions of the stories survived, so it was known as Ulysses. In the 1900s(?) the Greek versions of the story was (re)discovered. So, for a while Odysseus was the name used in scholarship, but the popular one was still Ulysses. Eventually, Odysseus took over in popularity, maybe because "an odyssey" became a known term.

Heracles and Hercules

Are the same dude too. Hercules is the most well-known name, but it's the Latin one. His Greek name has a lot more meaning. He was the result of an affair between Zeus and Alcmene. He was given the name Heracles, meaning something like "Pride of Hera" to try to reduce her hatred of him.

Zeus

Zeus was actually pronounced in Ancient Greek as effectively something like /zdeu̯s/ in IPA or "zdayoos" in sorta phonetic English. You may recognize that pronunciation as the Latin "deus" meaning god. The Greeks called their gods "theos", which is similar but unrelated to "deus". So, the Romans took their word for "god" from the main god of the Greeks. The Greeks took the name of their main god from the Proto-Indo-European Dyēus, the god of the daytime sky.

Planet Names

The only planet with a Greek name is Uranus, named for Ouranous, who is the grandfather of Zeus.

If the other celestial bodies went by their Greek names it would be:

• Sol -> Helios
• Mercury -> Hermes
• Venus -> Aphrodite
• Earth (Terra) -> Gaia
  • Luna (Moon) -> Selene
• Mars -> Ares
• Jupiter -> Zeus
• Saturn -> Cronus
• Uranus (Ouranous) [Greek] -> Caelus [Latin], see "ciel" in French, "cielo" in Spanish, etc.
• Neptune -> Poseidon

Also, when they started naming some of the outer planets they started with Jupiter, then Jupiter's father Saturn, Ouranus is the father of Cronus, the Greek equivalent of Saturn. So the 6th planet is the father of the 5th, and the 7th planet is the father of the 6th. But the 8th planet is the brother of the 5th.

Months

• January / Janus, doesn't really have a Greek equivalent
• February, not named after a god
• March / Mars -> Ares
• April, not named after a good
• May / Maia (same name in Roman and Greek)
• June / Juno -> Hera
• July / Julius Caesar
• August / Augustus Caesar
• September, septem being the Latin number 7, used for the 9th month
• October, octo being the Latin number 8, used for the 10th month
• November, novem being the Latin number 9, used for the 11th month
• December, decem being the Latin number 10, used for the 12th month

I love that

I always knew he's a megapsychic person.

def pocketing _remotoscope _ for a silly occasion.

Now do helicopter, heh

This should have included "autokinecticon."

Vision is scope, but scope is visor?

Some of these are also words though, like chirography.

In actual Greek:

• Homicide -> Anthropoktonia

• Magnanimous -> Megalopsychos

• Manuscript -> Cheirographo

Parvovisor... And then your dog needs a vaccine against micro, I guess? I didn't realise that was a Latin root.

That's just sci-fi terminology.