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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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