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The problem is that Galaxy means milky way, so Saying milky way galaxy is like saying the milky way milky way.

or chai tea, ir ATM machine

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I wonder what other languages/cultures use to refer to our galaxy

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    In Ukraine we use "Чумацький Шлях" (I'm not quite sure how to translate Чумак/Чумацький so I'll leave a link to wiki dictionary ) but saying "Молочний шлях" (Literally Milky Way) is also right

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    The Dairy lobby is at it again...

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    [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    We're mamalians

    It is our duty to name our galaxy something related to tiddies

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    On Cosmos (the original), Carl Sagan goes through a lot of the names for the part of the galactic spiral that we see at night in places without light pollution. A lot of them revolved around milk, but one that really stuck in my mind was ‘the backbone of the night.’ I think it might have been from an Aboriginal Australian culture, but it’s been so long I couldn’t say for sure.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It sounds a lot better in Spanish: "Vía Láctea".

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Should have been "Milky Whey."

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Milfy Way, or Milfky Way.
    (Aka The way of the milf.)

    It's such a shitty joke (my brainhole entertains itself in the stupidest, nonsensical, basic ways).

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago
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    milky way (when i remembered it right) the scientific name
    have to go now, hope someone who is informed can agree/disagree here

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago

    I mean, if anyone embodied the term better, I've not seen her. 🔥😱🫠

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