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THE AUTHOR ON THE WORD "EXTRATERRESTRIAL"
"Some writing is odd, too: for instance, the Xenocides call humans “extraterrestrials”, which would make sense only if they called their own world Terra, which they do not." - From the review by Infodad.comCobblers. The word has nothing to do with our world being called Terra, and is how any word meaning "off this world" would translate from another language into English. Now, using the word "alien" would have been wrong, because that word in English has only come to refer to extraterrestrials very recently. Its more proper use is simply "not one's own" or "foreign".
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