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Since we’re still on Page One here, can I make a reference to a book called Zombie Bums From Uranus, where this joke is made constantly?
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You jinxed it.
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Too busy looking at Uranus to notice the page had turned...
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I actually was talking about the first page of the forum.
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Turns out Uranus smells likes rotten eggs.
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I think everybody's does.
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Because it was the name of a Greek god and that's how planets were named.
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Well, for one thing, it wasn't chosen by someone who speaks English. I suspect it's less funny in other languages.
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Though only Uranus is named after a Greek god. All the others (except Earth) are named after Roman gods.
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What about pronouncing it "you're IN us"?
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I do, but Psihala is right.
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It should be properly rendered Ouranos
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It's the anglification of foreign names that causes this issue. You can find a reverse of the phenomenon in Putin's name being Poutine, in French, despite his not being covered in cheese and gravy. |
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Wouldn't that be gaulification?
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Rename to Caelus, the Roman god that fills the same role. Why they went with the Greek Uranus, rather than the Roman like every other planet is beyond me. Maybe Johann Elert Bode, the guy who named it, knew it would be a joke and wanted it that way. He was German, but he may have spoken English.
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Ouranos has the added benefit of somehow looking cooler, if that is a quality that can be assigned to a word
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Not really, because the issue is when the sound "ou" in French and other latin languages gets rendered in English. IT gets rendered as "U" but the letter u has more than just the "oo" sound leading to what we've got here (which is the way he likes it
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