From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Fri 10 Feb 1995 - 12:37:10 EET
Truls Parsson asserts that:
> Nils Weinander has japanised the Kralorelan names.
> Ming Tzu La (Metsyla), Ga Dong Ah (Godunya) etc.
Nope, a Japanese would find these at least as unpronouncable as the originals, or at least, as unspellable. But while we're on the subject, and since I've broached the subject elsewhere: should "Vormainian" names be Japanised? I've been inclining towards the view that they should, at least somewhat, but is there Massive Resistance to this idea?
Refresher course: Japanese has a (basically) consonant-vowel syllabary, has no stressed syllables, and lacks several of the sounds of western languages. So a (strictly) Japanised rendering of "Vormain" might be "Borumain", or "Forumain" (the "main" being pronounced "mine" rather than "mane").
Areku(su).
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