Usually I tell people I study Kuiper Belt Objects, because that name is more easily recognized by the general public. But today I have learned that I can make *Those People* cringe just by saying the more proper name.
So, I study Trans-Neptunian Objects.
Have you looked at the etymology and who uses that word?
https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/based/
There's plenty of "definitions" which elide over those points.
@sundogplanets Since I learned about the Kuiper Belt, I learned Dutch and realized I'd been pronouncing it wrong the whole time:
https://translate.google.com/?sl=nl&tl=en&text=kuiper&op=translate
@Soyweiser @sundogplanets I probably pronounced it "cow-per".
Closer would be "ko-per". The Dutch ui sound doesn't appear in English.
@sundogplanets so earth is cis-neptunian?
or is that a slur?
@sundogplanets
You mean like Pluto? Which we used to call a planet until we learnt more about it but there still some people too stubborn to update their nomenclature? Which scientists have come to understand that continuing to call it a planet would be asinine and ignorant of so much of reality?
Not sure why I felt to need to bring that up, of course you know all that, it couldn't possibly be a reference to something else.
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