Talk:The Real Story/@comment-4531340-20120830055836/@comment-4126310-20120831003242

It doesn't sound stupid and nonsensical -- it sounds stupid and nonsensical to you because you didn't know the word. There's a difference. You're still free to dislike the name, of course, but that argument is nonsense.

And I actually have a problem with "Celestia" as well, and any number of other very literal pony names (and non-pony names, like Chrysalis and Discord). It's one aspect of the show I had to overcome when I first started watching it, though obviously it wasn't a dealbreaker. But at least with Celestia they tried to change it up a little bit (choosing a name based on caelum, heaven, and not sol, sun), whereas with Luna they just called her "moon" and left it at that.