Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20130929130231/@comment-6192846-20150104154355

Daisy8000 wrote: Heck, Kachisu still sounds remarkably similar to "Kachess", if you pronounce "Kachess" like "Kah-CHESS" instead of "KAAH-chess". Most people I've seen seem to pronounce it like the former instead of the latter. I am not sure if I am completely sold on that, but would a "Kahchess" or some other variation work for you to represent that?

Daisy8000 wrote: Changing Kaachesu to Kaachisu is like changing Aren/アレン to Aron/アロン. Aren is the Romaji for Allen. You wouldn't still romanize "Aron" as "Allen", you would switch it to "Arron". Likewise, You can't translate Kaachesu as "Curtess" if that came from Kaachisu. Different scenarios. Ignoring mothy's spelling for it, discussing it would be result in us either going "Well Allen's a real name and that's the Japanese spelling for it," or "well we can't be sure so we'll go with _______". Regardless, we're be working with a working name. The above pic demonstrates a different spelling for "Kachess".

Daisy8000 wrote: The whole reason the idea of "Curtis" or a derivative came about originally is because Servant of Evillious changed カーチェス (Kaachesu, the original Romaji) to カーチス (Kaachisu). Even then, "Curtis", "Curtess", or anything similar would be put in with a "te" sound rather than a "che" sound, if that's what was truly intended. I looked up Kachess Japanese name and the very similar name Curtis/Curtiss was the only version that came up. Said spelling has the "tis" as "chisu" (チス).

Daisy8000 wrote: Along with all of this, there has been absolutely nothing to confirm nor deny any romanized spelling of the name, so for all we know, it could be Kaachesu all along. I'm fairly certain that if "Kachess" was an error that was meant to be fixed, it would've been changed along with "Sateriasis" and "Maylis" a long time ago. "Kaachesu" is the romanized spelling for Kachess Crim. Nowhere am I denying that. All sources spell his Japanese name カーチェス and unless I and everyone else here missed something, "Kaachesu" would be the proper romanization. The translation is a separate matter. It could be "Kaachesu" literally, just like we currently have Aai Freesis' first name as literally her romanization.

And would mind elaborating on the "meant to be fixed part"? The only reason Sateriajis and Meilis were changed was because it was brought up in discussion, talked about, and then decided on that way. The same is being brought up here. The only reason this is being discussed now rather than earlier is that no one brought it up before.

Daisy8000 wrote: Don't fix what's not broken. With the above pic showing a different spelling entirely for "Kachess", I'd say it is broke. Or does this tie into your first point about how you feel it would be pronounced?

67.67.8.132 wrote: It could easily be Marchius, too, tho, IIRC. Martius was chosen as it's a "real name" whereas Marchius is not. (Although Febria is not, as far as I'm aware, so.) Very true. For all we know, mothy would spell it as Marchius, Maruchiusu, Malchius, Maltius, or some other variation. Until he does so (if he does), we'll never know with 100% certainty. Even then, there are doubters when it comes to mothy's word still holding out on Eldoh.

67.67.8.132 wrote: Don't fix what's not broken. You say that while a picture posted in this discussion shows a completely.

Daisy8000 wrote: Heck, we can overanalyze and nitpick at Kachess's name all day, but none if it matters at all to the actual canon of the story until mothy finally confirms what the name is supposed to be. We can only hope.

Daisy8000 wrote: For all we know, Sateriasis might still be wrong. I know we changed Meilis to Maylis because of the month-theme naming, but I don't recall seeing the reason for changing Sateriasis? Sateriasis' name is taken from the term Satyriasis (see our trivia). Said term is spelled, サチリアジス (Sachiriajisu) vs Venomania's name which is サテリアジス (Sateriajisu).

The only difference is one katakana, (チ vs テ), so the suggestion agreed upon was to change "Sateriajis" to "Sateriasis" to match the "Jisu" also used in "satyriasis". For all we know, Sateriasis could be wrong. Perhaps the change of "chi" for "tyr" to "te" doesn't resut in a "ter" (though I don't know what else it could be except maybe "tehr").

Daisy8000 wrote: Then again, I'll admit I can't bring myself to read the Lust novel as I'm very repulsed by the contents of Duke Venomania's actions, and I'm mostly just irked at what seems to be an unnecessary change with very little reasoning to back it up. I am not sure what constitutes "very little reasoning", but you never brought up the pic Lemmings posted and I've pointed out and you seem to be under the wrong impression that I brought up Curtess implying that the spellings of Kachess Crim's Japanese name and the Curtis/Curtiss Japanese name are identical, which I've expressly stated and demonstrated they're not.

I suggested several potential changes besides Curtess as well, including "Karchess" (カー/Kaa is the term for "car" and why I joked about some of his results coming up as the similar "Car Chase").