Submitted by ParticleDetector t3_z63e7m in Showerthoughts
ParticleDetector OP t1_iy2b13c wrote
Reply to comment by felixrocket7835 in You see more suns at night than in the daytime. by ParticleDetector
Since we aren’t talking about the Sun (proper noun version), are you talking about using ‘sun’ (the common noun version) as a replacement for any star, even though it’s not orbited by planets?
If so then yeah that’s it’s weird.
But isn’t ‘sun’ (as a common noun) already being used for a rather long time to describe stars with planets, in popular works, and have such characters in such works mention is as the ‘sun’ (common noun) of that planet etc?
I don’t think I’ve seen anyone here yet say that ‘sun’ is a straight synonym for ‘star’, especially lonely stars with nothing orbiting it.
Like, if you see binary stars and nothing else in that system, we don’t call those ‘suns’ right?
I think you assumed that I was using ‘sun’ as a synonym for every single star?
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