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Re:Russians Desperately Try to Save Mars Moon Probe by hugh3 on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @11:16PM (#3218852)
That's just "moon" in another language. If you rename Earth's moon you're just shifting the problem into the Romance languages.
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Re:Russians Desperately Try to Save Mars Moon Probe by Natsu on Thursday November 10, 2011 @01:55AM (#3219224)
The only problem is one of ambiguity. So long as each language has their own convention to resolve that ambiguity, there's no problem.

Not all languages use the same names for stuff, after all. Abroad, the USA may be called les États-Unis d'Amérique, アメリカ, or a great many other things. And we use our own names for other countries that they don't use for themselves.

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