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Fun fact: In Chinese, the Milky Way is called Silver River (銀河系)
In swedish it's the "winter street"
Looks like the Chinese aren't as milky as us westerners
Well, that led me to an interesting hole
There are plenty of other names in the link, definitely worth a read
When we form a global government, first order of business is to pick the least embarrassing language for our interstellar civilization.
So english and french are super denied
Embarrasing in front of whom, the aliens?
That's the joke.
That's because it's another language.