Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20130929130231/@comment-6192846-20150103142906

67.67.8.132 wrote: Misstress of the heavenly yard wrote: It's a stretched "a". It's suposed to be an "r" in there somewhere. Karchess hardly sounds like a name. And Kartess isn't a name, either. I would except Curtess to sound slightly different from a very round a-sound.

Also aren't there names with the stretched a-sounds that aren't r's? I could have sworn so.

(Not to mention, apparently Kachess does translate to something close if not exact if what Master of Lemmings says above is true?) She's referring to the common use of a stretched a sound to create a vowel+r sound (when used in the middle of a sentence, sometimes at the end). Most Evillious names do this. The only other usage is to affect the letter coming after the stretched sound, such as in Homer (ホーマー/Hoomaa).

So what she's bringing up, in the case of Kachess, is that Kaachesu (like Kaachisu) should have that vowel+r sound. I am not sure if it absolutely has to in this case, but I bring up my previous comment on this topic:

Servant of Evillious wrote:

As far as カーチェス, it is true that the stress is commonly used to mimmick a "ar", "er", or "ur" sound, like how Taan makes "Turn". We also had Martius which also had the "ch" turn into a "t" sound. It sounds odd to me, but it is what it is. When you have the very similar カーチェス with only one added (vowel changing) katakana differentiating it from カーチス, it's hard to imagine there's much of a difference between Curtiss (Kaachisu) and Curtess (Kaachesu).

I am not sure if Lemmings is speaking from personal experience or not, but I can't even find a name "Kachess" used for anything except the lake Octo also found in her search results and a ridge or similar USA landmarks. Closest thing I found was "Kachesse". None of these I have found in tandem with a Japanese spelling.

That's what I can further contribute. I believe that is where Misstress is coming from but she can speak for herself on that.