I feel like these would be great substitutions for a retrofuturistic book.
Yup, I found a method of introducing fantasy names for stuff in my TTRPG campaign
Or interesting ways to make an alt history seen different.
Ah yes, clearly we are in dire need of an anastrophe as described by Marx and Engels in The Cenonite Chiroplect. Cephality is killing the planet, the ergate need to rise up.
Populimpery is on the nose.
“this monostrophe is a contraverse”
- that one Douglas Adams quotedef pocketing _remotoscope _ for a silly occasion.
I always knew he’s a megapsychic person.
!worldbuilding@lemmy.world might appreciate this
Along with Anglish and stuff like Uncleftish Beholding.
Vision is scope, but scope is visor?
I think what has happened here is that OOP has tripped up on what “vision” meant
We seem to have gotten “scope” from Ancient Greek twice. One is σκοπέω (skopéō), which is a verb for “look at” or “examine”, and the other is σκοπός (skopós), a noun for “watcher”. So I can see how they’d get scope (verb) = vision and scope (noun) = visor
Unfortunately the Latin word that we get vision from means “eyesight”, which neither sense of scope works for. I think the appropriate old Greek word is ὅρᾱσῐς (hórāsĭs), so maybe remotorasis would be a better guess for “television” on this post
(disclaimer, I’m not a linguist and also don’t really know anything about Latin or Ancient Greek, I might be wrong)
It could also be that they chose “remotoscope” over “remotorasis” intentionally because the former is such a fun word.
It’s definitely the more fun option
I imagine it has to do with verb conjugation
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This is breaking my brain
I love that
Now do helicopter, heh
Spirala?
Relevant Vsauce for why I chose the word: https://youtube.com/shorts/EupTKqL3f1E
Huh. Helicopterum - elicoptero - germanic: whirlybird.
This should have included “autokinecticon.”
Funny thing: https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Αυτοκίνητο
