A new name for the Kerbol

[halleyyy]

1 hour ago, razark said:

Kell kno! Ktoo kmany Ks kruins kthe kgame!

Ksays kwho?

[steuben]

13 hours ago, KSK said:

I guess you could reasonably argue that it would be more consistent if the Kerbals originally named that bright orb in the sky ‘the Sun’, with ‘suns’ then becoming a generic term for stars once they realised that the Sun was just the nearest star to Kerbin. 

But I don’t think it’s crazy to have different words for the proper name and generic term either. I see nothing intrinsically wrong with Kerbals talking about ‘their sun, Kerbol’.

Down this road lies the rabbit hole of deep world building. But... in my headcanon the dominant language of science is not the same as the language of the folks that are running the program. <Historical notes> for example science and engineering programs in prewar  North America had required courses  in German. Similar for pre-Victorian science you had to learn Latin and greek. </Historical notes> So, in that language it is the Sun, similar the Mün. For my little green-ish men, it is Kerbol and either Mun, Mün, or Moon depending on their accent. Though writing, or talking, in a formal technical context they will use Sun when talking about the central star. But they use sun instead of kerbol, note the lower case k, for the generic object.

[Fraston]

3 hours ago, Noah the Smol said:

Ksays kwho?

Ksays Knot Kme!

[Guest]

It would be cool if they named it after something similar to the system.

[KSK]

4 hours ago, steuben said:

Down this road lies the rabbit hole of deep world building. But... in my headcanon the dominant language of science is not the same as the language of the folks that are running the program. <Historical notes> for example science and engineering programs in prewar  North America had required courses  in German. Similar for pre-Victorian science you had to learn Latin and greek. </Historical notes> So, in that language it is the Sun, similar the Mün. For my little green-ish men, it is Kerbol and either Mun, Mün, or Moon depending on their accent. Though writing, or talking, in a formal technical context they will use Sun when talking about the central star. But they use sun instead of kerbol, note the lower case k, for the generic object.

Oh, I like that. Fits well with 'forum canon' too. In-game, the Map Screen is a technical aid, so Sun is appropriate. Out-of-game discussions are less formal, so Kerbol is fine.

[kBob]

It is already a bit of word play: Kerbol ...Sol.

[kerbiloid]

Ksun → Xun → Xün.

Xün & Mün.