The common language of the future

[communicator]

Metafilter had a link to this list on Tech Republic, of '75 words every SF fan should know'. That is, terms that you ought to be familiar with. I'm not over-impressed by the list (below the cut). As someone on metafilter said 'Any self-purported "Words all Sci-Fi fan must know" list that doesn't include Ansible is DOA, as far as I'm concerned.' I

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[davidcook]

Hmmm, interesting. Most are fairly familiar, although I seem to have trouble with things named after people - Alderson disk, Bernal sphere, Lofstrom loop, Shkadov thruster.

[applez]

Agreed, especially when they're variants (usually of scale) on the same theme.

[del_c]

A list that doesn't include "FTL", "hyperspace", "jump", "stargate", or "warp drive"? Wow, those mundane manifesto guys are really having an effect!