The Language of Sci-Fi
Word of Mouth
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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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