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Milk rule (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Fun fact: In Chinese, the Milky Way is called Silver River (銀河系)

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Looks like the Chinese aren't as milky as us westerners

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, that led me to an interesting hole

in Arabic, for example, the most common one is “The Straw Way” (درب التبانة—Darb al-Tabānah), after the sheafs of straw dropped by farmers on their way back from the fields. In India, the Milky Way is known as the “Heavenly Ganges” (आकाशगंगा—ākāśagaṅgā) and stretches across the belly of a cosmic dolphin.

There are plenty of other names in the link, definitely worth a read

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

When we form a global government, first order of business is to pick the least embarrassing language for our interstellar civilization.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

So english and french are super denied

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Embarrasing in front of whom, the aliens?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

That's the joke.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

In swedish it's the "winter street"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's because it's another language.