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Originally Posted by Luffy
The organization that the Americans fought in the Vietnam War was the Việt Minh, named after their greatest hero, Hồ Chí Minh. The Americans invented the words "Việt Cộng", "Charlie" and "the Gooks". The CIA believed that "Việt Cộng" sounded more menacing and was associated with communism.
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That's interesting, Luffy.
According to
10 Words Coined in the Sci-Fi Universe,
"
Alien comes to English from the Latin
alienus meaning 'belonging to another.' When it first entered English in the 1300s, it referred to an outsider, someone born in another country, or someone who is unfamiliar. It was not until the late 1920s that
alien took on its sci-fi meaning of 'an intelligent being from another planet.' Similarly, when
earthling first entered English in the late-1500s, it meant someone who lived on earth, not in heaven. Only in the mid-1800s did it take on the sci-fi meaning of a person who is not an alien."