• Dasus@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    That’s not a good analogy though. Cosmonaut isn’t just a translated term of astronaut. It’s different on purpose.

    Just a PhD is specifically different from MD, even though both are doctors.

    No their jobs aren’t as different, but it’s very much a definite prescriptive difference, one are people who went to space from the USSR/Russia, astronauts are American/European and Chinese spacefarers are taikonauts.