I am renaming the Sun to the Daystar.

[Projo]

you can call any other star sun

No you can't. The star at the center of our solar system is "the sun". It's the only sun. There is no other sun. That's its name. It's not the same case as the moon. Not every star is a sun. Only ours is, because that's its name. It's a nifty little sci-fi trope to call every star with bodies orbiting it a sun, but that's not the case realistically.

The sun is -only- the star at the center of -the- Solar System (ie, our solar system). Any other star in any other solar system is just a star. And Sol is just the Latin name of the sun. I don't speak Latin, so bug off.

 

[King Toasty]

So yeah, English is weird, and I want Lucifer to be our home star [sub]runner[/sub].

Lucifer is Venus when seen to the east at morning. (true story)

This is also true, but VENUS IS LAME.
Mars is easily the best planet.

 

[BENZOOKA]

Sigh. The sun has thousands of names already. I call it aurinko myself.

 

[Android2137]

Sun, Sol or Daystar. Any others? Because Sun is booring. We've been using it for so long.

Take your pick:
Sonne - German
diell - Albanian
slunce - Czech
zon - Dutch
soleil - French
sole - Italian
słońce - Polish
güneş - Turkish
that star that's really close - Akelzeroian

on a side note, google translate is really fun to play with

I gotta say I like the sound of that last one!

(Anyway, I prefer Sol to Daystar. Daystar sounds like something from an 80's cartoon.)

 

[2fish]

Helios

As in, the thing that guys like Copernicus and Galileo were trying to prove our planet revolved around. (Heliocentrism)

Helios is all seeing, I don't want to name our sun after the guy who watches me shower.

Are we starting a sun cult? If we are can we hold the meeting at night?

 

[Actual]

Ummm The Daystar is another name for Lucifer, prince of hell, the devil. We sure about this?

 

[Merkavar]

Why? Well, it's more practical for astronomical purposes. It sounds more awesome. And it sounds like a horrifying space monster made of flame that will devour our puny planet, like it actually is.

more practical? daystar makes it sound like it stops existing or giving off light at night. why not just leave it called the sun. or maybe call it brian or roberto?

 

[Aphroditty]

The words "moon" and "sun" were around, indicating solely the Moon and the Sun, long before they were co-opted by astronomy to mean any sizable satellite (I actually don't know the exact qualifications, if any, for a natural satellite to be a moon) and any star with planets. The onus is on astronomers to come up with some different names. The solution is not to force everyday language to co-opt terms from dead languages which can still lead to confusion (luna, for example, is ambiguous in relation to the Romantic languages, e.g. Italian) or to make up odd (and, I should note, still ambiguous) names like 'daystar'.

 

[TriGGeR_HaPPy]

Sun- noun. The parent star of a planet that supports life.

Sol- The name of Earth's sun.

This, basically.
Unfortunately, Daystar sounds a bit... Something. I'm not sure what, but I'm not doing it. Sorry.
( )

 

[Acidwell]

Our sun is actually called Sol.

Sol is awesome.

I'm guessing you watch doctor who because otherwise you would know that sol is really the name of an earth day on any other planet other than earth.(Or the name if the sun in rome)

No. I don't.

No. You are wrong.

Sol is Latin.

The main problem there is that this is an english speaking forum and not only is latin a dead language but also, really the name of an earth day on any non inhabited planet in our solar system is sol

 

[King Toasty]

Why? Well, it's more practical for astronomical purposes. It sounds more awesome. And it sounds like a horrifying space monster made of flame that will devour our puny planet, like it actually is.

more practical? daystar makes it sound like it stops existing or giving off light at night. why not just leave it called the sun. or maybe call it brian or roberto?

THE LIGHT OF EARTH
THE FLAME OF HUMANITY
THE KEEPER OF LIFE
BRIAN, MASTER OF THE SKY

Yes, I'm up for this or Daystar.

I like how this turned into a language debate.
Latin isn't dead, it's critical to science. It's just, nobody speaks it as a first language.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Well we use sun because sun is usually what we call stars taht are the primary e/m sources for a planet. While our Sun is a Sun with a capital S or Sol.

 

[xdgt]

Sun is just another word for a star, as previously mentioned our sun's private name is Sol.

It's isn't. It's the English spelling of the northern European name for sun from that mythology. Sol is the latin name and Helios is the Greek. It's called Sol because latin was the main language of science in Europe for a long while.

The way I see it latin is language to turn to for names (either that or greek). Back to my point, you can call any other star sun as well but you can't call it Sol. Hence it is its private name, same for moon - you can call any chunk of rock orbiting a planet moon, for instance Jupiter has moons (with their own names), but our moon's name is Luna.

I bet that you enjoy walking your canis lupus familiaris in the silvis. Sun is the proper name for our star in English. Other stars are called stars or by whatever other name they have, funnily enough. The difference between the Moon and a moon is confusing but you can call them satellites instead.

Well I can't say that I enjoyed walking my canis lupus familiaris (which was not actually mine...) in the silvis but somebody had to or the house would smell quite awfull. You can call our star Sun but it doesn't change the fact that any other star is a sun as well. Now I don't go around saying "Look at how Sol shines brightly today and poaceae is of delightfull green" but if we look for specific terms then latin is usefull, the common names in English are quite general and as those examples showed refer either to a specific object or any other object of its kind, which isn't that important in a daily discussion because everyone knows what you're talking about when you say sun - it is only by comparison with other stars that we find a need to call our sun something else.

 

[McBurks]

I call my Sun Ra.

 

[Acidwell]

Our sun is actually called Sol.

Sol is awesome.

I'm guessing you watch doctor who because otherwise you would know that sol is really the name of an earth day on any other planet other than earth.(Or the name if the sun in rome)

Oooooooooooor maybe because Sol is spanish for sun XP

Well i think the romans were there first and even if they weren't this is an english forum which means that sol doesnt mean sun and does mean the timescale of any planet othet than earth

 

[Lazy Kitty]

What are you gonna call the moon?
"Nightrock"?

 

[King Toasty]

I call my Sun Ra.

Ra is an Egyptian Sun god, not the actual Sun. He also had a falcon-head, so his vote is discounted.

What are you gonna call the moon?
"Nightrock"?

Dude, yes.
Or maybe just Luna. That's pretty cute.

 

[The Bum]

The sun is called the sun. Unless you want to get all latin on me then it is called Sol.

Sol is awsome.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

Well I can't say that I enjoyed walking my canis lupus familiaris (which was not actually mine...) in the silvis but somebody had to or the house would smell quite awfull. You can call our star Sun but it doesn't change the fact that any other star is a sun as well. Now I don't go around saying "Look at how Sol shines brightly today and poaceae is of delightfull green" but if we look for specific terms then latin is usefull, the common names in English are quite general and as those exampled showed refer either to a specific object or any other object of its kind, which isn't that important in a daily discussion because everyone knows what you're talking about when you say sun - it is only by comparison with other stars that we find a need to call our sun something else.

The Sun is the only Sun. If someone mistakes Ben Nevis for Mt Fuji that doesn't mean that we need a new name for Mt Fuji.