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DevsBro
08/16/18 9:32:21 PM
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Cress, Cless
Reina, Lenna

Sure these are common translation substitutions but what makes your teanslation of a made-up word better than the localization team's? It's a made up word. It could be either.
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Yomi
08/16/18 9:38:33 PM
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What is it with your topics man
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Reis
08/16/18 9:40:37 PM
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Yomi posted...
What is it with your topics man

he's right tho

people who call terra (ff6) tina (ff3 lulz) deserve the death penalty
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charey
08/16/18 9:43:49 PM
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You mean like people who insist its Saiya-Jin when jin just means person. You could make an argument for Saiya vs Saiyan but putting the Jin on there just shows you dont know anything about Japanese.
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stone
08/16/18 9:45:06 PM
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Reis posted...
Yomi posted...
What is it with your topics man

he's right tho

people who call terra (ff6) tina (ff3 lulz) deserve the death penalty

Same with people who call Aeris Aerith.
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Darkrobotisback
08/16/18 9:45:23 PM
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Reis posted...
Yomi posted...
What is it with your topics man

he's right tho

people who call terra (ff6) tina (ff3 lulz) deserve the death penalty

Tina.
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tainted_emerald
08/16/18 9:47:54 PM
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charey posted...
You mean like people who insist its Saiya-Jin when jin just means person. You could make an argument for Saiya vs Saiyan but putting the Jin on there just shows you dont know anything about Japanese.

Are you actually arguing that you'd call an alien from Mars a "Mars" instead of a "Martian"?
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GATTJT
08/16/18 9:49:19 PM
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stone posted...
Reis posted...
Yomi posted...
What is it with your topics man

he's right tho

people who call terra (ff6) tina (ff3 lulz) deserve the death penalty

Same with people who call Aeris Aerith.

You mean people who are right?
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Shotgunnova
08/16/18 9:51:27 PM
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Algus Sadalfas -> Argath Thadalfas
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Second_Chances
08/16/18 9:52:40 PM
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the dumb thing about Cless VS Cress is Cress is actually part of a theme naming of sorts with Mint with both of their names being herbs but everyone ignores that because dude Ragnarok parsed through Microsoft Word 2003's spellcheck lmao
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jumi
08/16/18 10:23:18 PM
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Some of those are official retcons. Aeris became Aerith and Algus became Argath officially. The Tina thing is just fans going by the Japanese name.

Also:

Terra > Tina
Sabin >>>>>>>>> Mash

Also, Saiyan is fine, but SS sounds dumb.
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