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Originally Posted by ak_aramis
It's never aliens... except when it is.
It's interesting how the term has shifted.
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We might not be changing the spellings of the words, but we sure as hell are changing the common connotations, and in some cases, primary denotations of words... And that's a real life weirdness all its own.
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IIRC, psychologists were originally called alienists. To wit, the word comes from the French
aliéniste, from
aliéné, for insane.