<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">The main point I failed to explain well is that the more distant a place and less likely you are to encounter actual people from that place with a name for themselves, the more consistent we get with our naming. There aren’t a lot of Martians around to object to being called Martians with some other native name preferred. Germans, however, don’t really consider themselves to be “Germans”, since they have a name for themselves in their own language. The same is true for pretty much any non-English-speaking country.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here on Earth, we are VERY inconsistent when expressing our equivalent of {-ngan} among all natives of anywhere on Earth.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cherokee got their English name from the French, who did a hack job of transliterating something that sounds more like “Tsalaghee”, and other native tribes have English names that were actually insulting names for them from the languages of other native tribes who were on better terms and communicated more with white people. How would you like to be from the “stinking bastard” tribe, or the “coward” tribe, or the “greedy liars” tribe?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So, this suggests that since Klingons are very consistent with {-ngan} for every inhabitant of any place that isn’t {Qo’noS}, there’s a great symbolic line in the sand with Klingons on one side, and everybody else on the other side.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 22, 2020, at 9:29 AM, SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name" class="">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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Similarly, we say that those from Venus are Venusians and those
from Mars are Martians, but we say we are from Earth, yet we refer
to ourselves as “terrestrials” and not *Earthians*.</blockquote><p class="">The first word anyone thinks of when thinking of a demonym for
inhabitants of Earth is <i class="">Earthling</i><i class="">.</i></p><p class="">Other words used to describe us: <i class="">Earther</i>, <i class="">Earthman,
Terran</i>, <i class="">Tellurian</i>, <i class="">Gaian.</i> I've even heard <i class="">Earthan,</i>
though I think that was from a science-fiction character who
wasn't sure what the right name was.</p><p class="">Also, before <i class="">Venusian</i> was popular in science-fiction, the
word <i class="">Venerean</i> was common.</p><p class="">We also don't say <i class="">moonian,</i> we say l<i class="">unarian</i>,<i class=""> </i>and
in any science-fiction in which we say that, the inhabitants
usually get ticked off if you call them <i class="">lunatics.</i> In <i class="">The
First Men in the Moon,</i> they're called <i class="">Selenites.</i></p><p class="">The choice of demonym isn't always <i class="">place name + ian</i> in
English. Inhabitants of New York are <i class="">New Yorkers. </i>Inhabitants
of Pittsburgh are <i class="">Pittsburghers.</i> Inhabitants of Vancouver
are <i class="">Vancouverites.</i> Inhabitants of Vienna are <i class="">Viennese.</i></p><p class="">Mars is kind of unusual in that it <i class="">doesn't</i> have a bunch
of different names.<br class="">
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