Minkowskan English

Dictionary

Answards: The direction opposing the standard orbital motion. Clockwise.

Becker: Person with feet.

Crush, The: The symptoms of spending time in gravity.

Down: The direction from the head to the feet of the speaker. The direction of decreasing inclination.

East: Anticlockwise.

Elf: (derog.) Member of homo caelum secundus.

Garn: A person suffering from space sickness.

Ground Pounder: A welldweller clumsy in zero-gravity.

Island: A colony with an artificial superstructure (i.e. not an asteroid colony)

Lopez: A large asteroid.

North: One pole of a magnet. The direction of increasing inclination.

Rain: Micrometeorite impacts.

Saz: A spacesuit. More strictly a space activity suit, so rarely used for suits for children.

Spinbound: In spin-gravity. More generally, people or things originating from spin-gravity societies.

Spinner: Person who lives on a spin-gravity colony.

Spinwards: The direction of standard orbital motion. Anticlockwise.

South: The direction of decreasing inclination.

Starwards: The direction of increasing radius, especially in space.

Tub: Unpowered spacecraft.

Up: The direction from the feet to the head of the speaker. The direction of increasing inclination.

Walk: Spacewalk.

Wellbound: In a gravity well. More generally, people or things originating from planetary societies.

Welldweller: Person who lives in gravity.

Wellwards: The direction of decreasing radius, especially in space.

West: Anticlockwise.