Words, words, words

Would someone mind explaining to my slang-ignorant self the spoons reference that keeps popping up on my f-list? As in, "I don't have the spoons to [whatever]."

In trade, I offer a handy pair of words -- if I'm not the last one to hear about these, too. Something that's bothered me for a long time on Star Trek, and more recently Stargate, was the naming of planets and stars and other cosmological objects based on a Federation (or SGC) system. Ceti Alpha Six, Cardassia Prime, PX-fill-in-the-blank, whatever. In a lot of cases, the inhabitants have to have had their own, different names for where they lived. Hi, colonialism issues. Yes, you can argue that some of the planets aren't inhabited and so there are no citizens to name it, and others like Cardassia Prime are named after the Cardassians who live there and who might call it that themselves, and that in the Federation's case there might have been a group agreement on nomenclature, but my point here is mainly the linguistic one. And today I learned that there are words to wrap it all up beautifully: endonyms and exonyms. Go language.

Okay. Off to see my first episodes of Farscape.