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Old 09-22-2019, 03:10 PM   #2104
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Default Re: Real-Life Weirdness

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Originally Posted by Anders View Post
It's never aliens... except when it is.

It's interesting how the term has shifted. When I was a kid, (1970s), ne had to preface with "space" for it to be understood not to be just foreigners. By the time I was in college (90s), the "person from another nation" was only understood as humans if prefaced with "legal" or "illegal"....

Due to the popularization of UFO as a term for space alien ships... the USN term Sky quotes is "unidentified aerial phenomena" ...

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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