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*** The lizards also use their own terms for certain ranks and vehicles, most of these being [[We Will Use Wiki Words in the Future|wiki-words]]: "fleetlord" means admiral, "shiplord" means captain, "killercraft" means jet fighter, "landcruiser" means tank, "troopcarrier" means APC. Interestingly, certain words they use make no sense given what we are told about them. They call their spacecraft "ships", even though they're from a [[Single Biome Planet|desert world]] with no large bodies of water and have never bothered to develop naval vessels. The word "landcruiser" implies other kinds of cruisers, except they have none. A Chinese woman is baffled by the Race's use of "ships", as their "planes-that-never-come-down" are most definitely not on water.

*** Also interesting are the lizards who learn a human language and will still insist on calling a tank a landcruiser, meaning they learn "land" and "cruiser" and jam them together instead of the equivalent term.

** Snape also has problems with the term "mind reading", and instead prefers legilimency (which is dog-latin [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|for "mind reading"]]).

** Similarly, instantaneous travel is called apparation instead of the Muggle sci-fi word "teleportation", and animated corpses are inferi, not "zombies".