Thread: Why do Science Fiction writers call Earth, "Terra"?
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Old 02-25-2013, 12:24 PM   #32
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Never heard of them.
Their book "Illegal Aliens" made a running joke out of it. In what today would be reconized as the Google translation game - translate something in to a different language, then translate it back - "earth" became "dirt," and "earthling" became "dirtling."
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