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:It's mostly because Xaldin's weapons obviously need to ''stay'' in Japanese. When I first made the pages, the translations were awful and unwieldy ("dragon polaris general"?). The only way to make them sound not ''grating'' in English would be to take a lot of creative license, which this wiki isn't going to do because our job is straight information, not so much interpretation. | :It's mostly because Xaldin's weapons obviously need to ''stay'' in Japanese. When I first made the pages, the translations were awful and unwieldy ("dragon polaris general"?). The only way to make them sound not ''grating'' in English would be to take a lot of creative license, which this wiki isn't going to do because our job is straight information, not so much interpretation. | ||
:Also, Lexaeus's weapons have been changed to Japanese (they're mostly proverbs and poetry things that should probably stay in Japanese, although a lot of them sound alright in English). Marluxia and Zexion, the other two with Japanese weapon names, are easily translatable.—[[User:Urutapu|Urutapu]] 05:18, 8 August 2009 (UTC) | :Also, Lexaeus's weapons have been changed to Japanese (they're mostly proverbs and poetry things that should probably stay in Japanese, although a lot of them sound alright in English). Marluxia and Zexion, the other two with Japanese weapon names, are easily translatable.—[[User:Urutapu|Urutapu]] 05:18, 8 August 2009 (UTC) | ||
::Zexion has a case for also being in japanese, but Marluxia's consist of katakana as well, so we agreed they would work better in English. Basically, the ones that have a clear "theme" in their names (Vexen's German, Larxene's French, and Xaldin and Lexaeus's poetic Japanese...wait, could Xaldin's be Chinese?), we decided to stick with that theme. However, judging by past examples (the main Keychains, La Vie en Rose), they will end up translated anyway in a month, so it's not really a big deal for us.[[User:KrytenKoro|<small>Glorious</small>]] [[User_talk:KrytenKoro|<small>CHAOS!</small>]] 06:23, 8 August 2009 (UTC) | |||