Taikonaut really is a bit "look, we can have a posh scientific name, too", isn't it?
(And what is it with always having the suffix "naut" when really, what does space have to do with the sea?)
― kate (kate), Friday, 17 October 2003 07:10 (twenty years ago) link
(Besides, it's spaceship, no? All metaphor...)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 17 October 2003 07:48 (twenty years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link