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War on "Terra"?

Anyone else ever notice that Dubya's drawling mispronunciation of the word "terror" sounds a lot like the Latin word for earth, "terra"? A lot of SF authors use the word Terra for Earth in their stories… presumably to either impart some "classicism" to our home planet's name, or simply because they can then refer to denizens of our world as "terran" instead of "earthling"… arguably, a more euphonious name.

So Bush's War on Terror becomes "War on Terra". Or simply "War on Earth"… a sadly fitting name for the multi-generational conflict he's envisioned for us all.

I love word games.

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