Let's find a better name for our race,shall we?
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"Nature Lords"? Lemonmouth-face.
We're not very good at ruling nature I must say, at least the way lordliness entails.
I, Lord Mountbatten for instance, do absolutely nothing positive or negative cumulatively, just like the Shadow Broker, for all my actions of absolutely non-critical lordly duties add up, in the end, to nothing.
Agent Smith himself called our relationship with nature parasitic.
I'd call us "Blokes", if only because it would mean our race would inherently be Yorkshire.
We're not very good at ruling nature I must say, at least the way lordliness entails.
I, Lord Mountbatten for instance, do absolutely nothing positive or negative cumulatively, just like the Shadow Broker, for all my actions of absolutely non-critical lordly duties add up, in the end, to nothing.
Agent Smith himself called our relationship with nature parasitic.
I'd call us "Blokes", if only because it would mean our race would inherently be Yorkshire.
The Race Formerly Known as Humans seems to be a good idea to me.
...That, or Terrans. I like the sound of that one for some reason.
...That, or Terrans. I like the sound of that one for some reason.
No, that's actually Meatbags.FinalDream said:
Well human is "Ember" in hungarian, and both e-s are pronounced the way the first e is pronounced in "elder".
SO my vote goes for Terrans too. Catchy, and perfectly accurate.
That would apply to every species on the planet unfortunately. It works better when describing humanity as a cultural group (in the same way French or American works today).Matt_LRR said:
Human is most probably the result of hominis (meaning man) and humus (earth) being combined in a word that most literally means "Earthly Beings". Given that this word was first coined during an era when people believed that divine beings often directly interacted in mortal affairs, it seems reasonable that they would come up with a word that distinguishes people from gods.
If one wanted a new word, it would have to represent humanity in a way that specificially encapsulates us as a species. At the moment I am at a loss as to what traits would be so general as to apply to nearly ever person who has lived in the last couple of millenia.
While true, in the context of defining our species in an inter-stellar capacity, "Terrans" as in "the intelligent species originating from Terra" makes reasonable sense, even if *technically* any life from Earth is Terran.Eclectic Dreck said:
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In retrospect, it would apply simply because I realized I don't call an ant or a field mouse "American" even though the term may well apply. The only trouble I see is that the term, given enough time in an interstellar setting, would cease to apply.Matt_LRR said:
Culturally, Americans are somewhat different from the primary founding nation and that is the result of only a few hundred years separation and common intereaction with alternate cultures. The same would likely be true eventually in a universe wherein humanity has need of a better word with which to describe itself. Still, this is a problem that would only present itself in the future, likely long after I'm dead, so I suppose I can stick with Terrans.
It is better than anything else I can come up with at the moment, simply because origin seems to be the unifying factor of the species. All other traits occur in a significantly lower portion of the population than simply originating on earth.