I just started playing Skyrim and when I walked into Whiterun I heard the priest, Heimsker talk about how the elves wouldn't even accept the humans on EARTH. I've never played an Elder scrolls game before but I've been told the world they live on isn't Earth. So was this just a mistake by Bethesda or is there planet actually Earth?

NIRN WE LIVE ON NIRN NOT YOUR STUPID Earth...

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either they made a mistake or Heimskr means earth (the land, ground)

I think they made a mistake.

earth is not capitalized, therefore they are talking about the physical substance. The planet is still called Nirn, but the land of which it is comprised of is called "earth". earth and water.

I didn't take that into account. Of course I have seen them make mistakes in sub titles to.

They also have a spriggan with that included in its title. I don't think it's a mistake; it's just a general term for the world.

Of course, they are crap aren't they?

I don't think they made a mistake.

People always misinterpret that.

I have only just came back into the thread to see the other posts and what DarksunTheFirst said about the earth not being capitalized made me realize it isnt a mistake.
also I said in my post it could be Ground.

I have heard and seen the term "earth" several times in Elder Scrolls. For example, in the following book on the Falmer in Skyrim, Fourth paragraph "it descended. Into the earth, deep underground"

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:The_Falmer:_A_Study

I don't think it is a mistake. It is earth in the sense of the ground, or maybe a slang for the world. It is not Earth (capital "E") in the sense of a particular planet.

Bethesda is a bit like Sheldon Cooper. One mistake regarding Heimskr's speeches, sure - but two?

Must be a conspiracy.

Careful...

true but earth is only referred to as such because it's what we call the planet that the soil sits on...therefore the word earth shouldn't exist in TES because the planet is called Nirn. They should have a similar statement but say of nirn and sea or un-nirn something from the ground

poor attention to detail again.

I've thought about it a little longer and i still think it was a mistake. I mean they couldn't be using earth to describe land in general. For example, if you were on a mythical planet you wouldn't say, it landed straight on the earth because you wouldn't know about earth.

Us humans never get to play with the cool kids..

I imagine translating the Common Tongue language of Nirn to English so we can understand what's going on had more to do with it then poor attention to detail. I doubt English is common language of the universe that all planets with intelligent life use to communicate with each other.