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The Language of Sci-Fi
Word of Mouth
Shakespeare's the Tempest Prospero
The project is not to include anything that has scientific elements, let's say. But actually the vocabulary that is used in science fiction. For example, there are a lot of terms for a putative residence of the moon or other planets. I was amused to see that some of the first examples describe bing creatures from mars were called martians, but spelt with an s. And you've got, i think, earthites from 18 14. That really grabbed me. I quite like the idea, i'm an earthite. Nd there are quite a number of other ones for residents of the planet that we are on right now. Earthite, earthian, terran,
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