Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-23.122.217.39-20150626042307/@comment-6192846-20150728234549

23.122.217.39 wrote: In my opinion, A Tale of Abandonment on a Moonlit Night is already a middle ground. I have suggested shorter titles that worked for conveying what it meant but they all sounded terrible.

Unless "The Abandonment Moonlit Night Tale" somehow becomes more palatable with the "Night" in there (and I'm sure it doesn't), I'm not sure what else there is. I don't think there's any way to make it shorter without it sounding grammatically awkward, and there's no way to make it not awkward without making it overly long. I agree. I think the current title passed earlier was more than acceptable with all the different takes.

23.122.217.39 wrote: On the topic of the "Night" thing, I entered 月夜 into Denshi Jisho to see if there's any other way it could be interpreted, and apparently the word is also used for a species of ghost fungus, a type of mushroom that glows at night (月夜茸). The term is translated on Jisho as the Moonlight Mushroom, and other countries have similar naming themes for it (such as the Jack O' Lantern Mushroom).

I'm not saying this proves that "Tsukiyo" means "Moonlight" and not "Moonlit Night"--It still clearly means "Moonlit Night". But I'm saying there does appear to be a precedent for shortening the term as to cut out "night" and focus entirely on the moon aspect of it when used as a descriptor for other things. This has been my experience with the term as well.

I agree that "Moonlit Night" is necessary if we're going with the idea the term is modifying the "Tale" and not the abandonment. A "Moonlit Tale" and a "Moonlit Night Tale" have different meanings vs a "Moonlit Abandonment" and the same alternative, at least as what's being purported so far (unless anyone's proposing the (abstract thing) tale isn't about a moonlit night but is actually being illuminated by a moonlit night).

Tale of Abandoment on a Moonlit Night is fine, though I'm personally open to some of the other options.

If everyone else is fine with moving on with the other song, I think "End/Ending Tale on a Moonlit Night" would work best should the "End/Ending" be modifying the tale as well.