Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20130929130231/@comment-6192846-20150103213239

67.67.8.132 wrote: [...] and with a pattern especially in Venomania of a lot of the named characters NOT having real names [...] especially as of the song and the reveal of Kachess' own name which was before the novel and the inclusion of most of those names, I think it's more likely he happened to throw a name together. You're focusing a lot on the use of made up names, but the most that I see in our minor char lists for the entire arc are done wih the primary intention of referencing the Vocaloid in its Japanese pronunciation (ie, romaji).

Sometimes this resulted in made up names (see Lukana, Mikulia, Mewtant, etc.) and other times this resulted in real names (see Mickina, Carol, Maylis, etc). Maylis' name especially was shown long before her siblings entered the picture, so to just assume mothy threw the name together to get in a chess allusion is a huge assumption, considering he had already threw together a slew of names for the song itself.

67.67.8.132 wrote: And with both names one off, at this point, with no way to tell which one is correct, it's far safer to use the one that is most familiar. 1) Regarding Keeping the Most Familiar

I would agree with you on this, if the evidence firmly reopening this discussion wasn't a picture objectively showing that カチェス was the proper spelling for Kachess and not     カーチェス. With what's bee presented so far, "Kachess" should be changed to maintain accuracy. The question left is to what.

2) Regarding Boths Being One Point Off

The two changes are simply not equal. You're making a purely quantitative analysis without looking any further in-depth.

Adding a   ェ  to  カ      ー   チス  simply turns a "chi" sound into a "che" sound. We see this in names like Elphegort  (エルフェゴート), where the ェ turns what would normally be "fu" (フ) into "fe". So logically, it makes sense for a ェ added to   Curtis/Curtiss (カーチス) to simply change it to "Curtess" (     カーチェス).

The other change is  adding a katakana stressing the "Ka" sound into "Kaa", making "Kaachesu". This has already been demonstrated to have a huge affect on the spelling with Curtis/Curtiss, which also has the same  カーチ (Kaachi) use to create the "Curti". This has been demonstrated many times in other foreign names/words in the Japanese language.

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Yet despite these two points, you're continiuing to insist keeping it at "Kachess" for familiarity reasons, regardless of facts presented against it. I already made several suggestions of names that keep a chess spelling. You can make your argument for those or present your own. But to cling to solely the "Kachess" spelling at this point without giving support to overturn the previous points made isn't helping imo.