Not necessarily planet specific. Our planet was named after the ground we stand on, because we couldn't be imaginative enough to call it something different like Ur. :)
Ah, but that is the human, earth dwelling definition ;) I was just thinking...if I lived on Ur, and did not know of "earth" would I still call it earth?
I totally agree, it should clearly be CLUMPS of Earth, I've been trying to change it for aaaaaage… oh no, wait, that wasn't your point.
And it's a good point (and I love 'Urth', Kungaloosh, that's ace), but then, if you start down the road of 'aaaaah, but that's the human, earth-dwelling definition. Whereas, as a figment of imagination on Ur, I might call it…' then where do you stop? There's a line between the relatable and the whimsical and the understandable, and that's the line that 'earth' sits on.
If you can HAVE a line between three things that something sits on.
I suppose that's more like 'a triangle'.
There is a line between those things, and it's a triangle, and earth sits on it.
In it.
Whatever, you know what I mean, right?
Love the idea to change it to Clumps of Urth!!! +1000
Kungaloosh...WOW or Disney Adventurers Club reference? Didn't even know of the WOW reference until I googled it...I was a huge fan of the Adventurers Club...
If we lived on Ur, we wouldn't be speaking English. The English word for what the ground is made of is "earth," along with "air" for the invisible substance that surrounds us, "water" for the liquid in lakes and rivers and "fire" for what we see around something that's burning. It would be inconsistent to make up another word for "earth" without making up other words for air, water, and fire, and in fact, for every other word in the English language!
The more I think about this, the more complicated it gets. Is the "water" on Ur H2O? If not, maybe we really shouldn't call it water. And if I were on Mars, it really would feel funny to call the substance beneath my feet "earth," even in English. I guess I wouldn't mind calling the substance of the atmosphere "air," but I probably wouldn't want to call the substance of the atmosphere on Saturn "air." That could be fatally misleading.