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- Subject: Re: Write "Lua" right
- From: Rob Kendrick <lua-l@...>
- Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:44:50 +0000
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 23:38 +0100, Stefan Sandberg wrote:
> It's just the portuguese word for moon.. I'm not sure the name OF the
> moon orbiting earth is 'moon' though.
> If it were, expressions like "The name of one of Jupiters moons is
> Europa" would sound pretty strange..
Moon is both specific to our moon, and any natural satellite. Earth
only has one (commonly, unless you're a QI viewer, where the number
changes from series to series) moon, so it's unambiguous to say "Earth's
moon".
It's sometimes called Luna in English too - from the Latin (where the
Portuguese Lua comes from, too)
B.
