Alternate vocabulary in upcoming timeline

I have collected a list of alternate terminology from an upcoming timeline I am working on, and I wish to know what people's opinions of these alternate words are.

If anybody wishes to have an explanation of any terms, just ask.

Car: Jem
Cell phone: handvox
Computer: Combine
Fascism: Popular nihilism (US, CS, British Empire), state collectivism (France)
Helium: Coronium
Infrared: Subrubic light
Internet: CombiNet (US, CS), Electrosphere (British Empire), Kora (Russia), Weltsys (German Empire)
Laser: GEMSEL (Generation of ElectroMagnetic Stimulated Emission of Light)
Machine gun: Cyclogun (British Empire only)
Nuclear bomb: Stellarbomb
Nuclear reactor: Paradox engine (CS only)
Pixel: Picpar (CS), cell (rest of the world)
Plastic: Slac (US only)
Plutonium: Hespiterium (US), extremium (CS)
Quantum theory/physics: quantic theory/quanta physics
Radiation: Parlight (British Empire only)
Relativity theory: Variance theory
Sonar: AALOS (Anachronistic Acoustic Location System)
Submarine: Hydroship (US, British Empire), marinecraft (CS)
Stockholm syndrome: Asperger's syndrome
Tank: Stalker
Telephone: Sonophone/televox (used interchangeably, the latter more common in the Americas)
Television/TV: Radiovision/RV
Truck: Eljem
Ultraviolet: Supralight
Uranium: Jovium

There is one more, however, I have a feeling that this one is going to be controversial, so I listed it last and shall explain it.

Austism/autistic: Fascesism/fascesistic

This derives from an Italian doctor doing a study on autistic (TTL, fascesistic) children. During an interview with one of the children, the doctor asked one of the children how he felt about his condition. The child replied, "Don't worry about me. I'm sure there are others in much worse conditions." Surprised by the strength the child showed, the doctor coined the term "fascesism" after the fasces, which was a symbol of strength.

Please provide me with input on this sampling of alternate terminology.
 
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I'd like explanations of "jem" and "eljem", and the origin of "Asperger's Syndrome"

Edit: Also, why "anachronistic" in the term for Sonar?
 
"Jem" is derived from the original term for car being "groundmobile." Since people are lazy, that got shortened to "GM" and then corrupted into "jem." Similarly, "eljem" is derived from "large groundmobile" since people are unoriginal.

As for Asperger's syndrome, TTL its name was simply derived from that of the first man to experience it, Alexander Asperger. Although admittedly I got the idea from DoD

The "Anachronistic" in AALOS refers to the fact that the device is searching for anachronisms within the area it scans.
 
Also, a note: GEMSEL and AALOS are pronounced as if they are ordinary words ("gehm-sell" and "ah-los"), but unlike OTL spelling them as acronyms stuck.
 
The term 'state collectivism' sounds kind of left-wing like the term for a state that embraced communist economics but rejects the idea that national origin/race/religion aren't relevant ways to categorize people.
 
It looks like there is a surviving Confederacy. Do they still have slavery? In an alt world war !, it seems that France went communist. Which side won? The US must have been on the losing side, since the CS still exists.
 
From H.G. Wells' work, I always imagined "land ironclad" would be a pretty cool name for the tank. I mean, OTL name apparently came from the fact that the British inventors working on the first tanks were doing the job in complete secrecy during World War I, and they did it under the façade they were building tanks (as in, water reservatories).

Considering that H.G. Wells was a man waaaaay ahead of his time (like Jules Verne), it would be an interesting homage to him in an ATL where he might not even have existed. Also, it would keep with the tradition of naming "modern" weaponry in sea-jargon fashion, much like we call zeppelins "airships" and space vessels "spaceships".
 
The term 'state collectivism' sounds kind of left-wing like the term for a state that embraced communist economics but rejects the idea that national origin/race/religion aren't relevant ways to categorize people.

Fascism is quite different TTL than OTL, considering that it arises in a different country, and although there are some philosophies more associated with OTL communism mixed in, the general idea is that of OTL fascism.

It looks like there is a surviving Confederacy. Do they still have slavery? In an alt world war !, it seems that France went communist. Which side won? The US must have been on the losing side, since the CS still exists.

There will be a surviving CSA, but the POD will not be during the Civil War. Slavery is eventually banned within the CSA in the 1870s, surprisingly without foreign intervention as in TL-191 or ASB as in The Guns of the South. Describing how the War of the Three Cousins goes would be, of course, spoilers. The Confederates won't be defeated in that war, but they won't exactly win, either. The twelfth Confederate president will be to blame for this, which is why later Confederates will recall him as one of the worst presidents and, within the CSA, the name "Benito Juarez IV," although the "IV" tends to be removed, will become synonymous with the USA's "Benedict Arnold."
 

AspieMan

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Asperger's was named after Hans Asperger, a doctor who studied psychiatric disorders in children. I have Asperger's, and I am proud of it. It is why I am a champion golfer despite being legally blind.
 

RavenMM

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GEMSEL doesn't make much sense, just EMSEL would make more sense, but even that sounds strange, as light is of course also a electromagnetic wave.
 
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