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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
I know it's the Latin name for Earth. But it's always an English language book to which I refer. And it isn't really a word that has found its way into the English lexicon.
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The only benefit I can think of is that it's not English-language specific. Perhaps the future "world government" which is generally in place in such books doesn't want to have a bias towards any particular culture.
I would add in passing, that the corresponding adjective, "terrestrial", IS in the normal English lexicon.