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Nakama is being renamed.

ChagenChagen
edited 2011-07-09 23:26:54 in Webspace
[tɕagɛn]
This can only go wrong.

Also, I kinda like the word "Nakama". Though it is kind of vague to outsiders, so I guess a rename is in order. I hope Nakama is still a redirect, though.
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Comments

  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    Really?  Finally.
  • DonZabuDonZabu
    I've never cared about it much, but I voted yes to renaming it.
  • Wicked223Wicked223
    We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced, For the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year
    I only wish [AOD] were here to see this...
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    Why?
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    He was a fierce (and I mean fierce) proponent of renaming it.
  • BeeBee
    edited 2011-07-09 23:31:57
    What, again?  Last I heard the previous attempt ended in a fall guy getting banned when the backlash flared up.
  • HatterHatter
    Glaives are better.
    I wish I were unbanned. I want to hear the girlish shrieks of the weeaboos. Such music they make!
  • Wicked223Wicked223
    We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced, For the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year
    He lobbied harder than anyone else to have Nakama and the rest of the Japanese names changed to clearer counterparts. He even had his college's linguistics professor clarify the actual meaning of the word, to eliminate one of the arguments used for keeping it.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    One thing I never got is the "We should rename it because it's not correct use of the Japanese word" argument.

    Loanwoards change all the time, sometimes meaning literally opposite things from the original language.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2011-07-09 23:36:26
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Can I vote yes on the first step of a two-step recall but keep it in the running for the second step?

    ^ LOL "egregius" -> "egregious"
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    edited 2011-07-09 23:36:22
    You can change. You can.
    Nakama is staying a redirect to avoid much cleaning. However, its further use will be disencouraged.

    ^^the point with that is that it means that A) An English speaking user wouldn't understand while B) A Japanese speaking user would utterly dumbfounded and probably offended as well.
  • DYREDYRE
    edited 2011-07-09 23:36:48
    ^^^ But... "nakama" isn't even a loanword... I have never seen it used aside from TV Tropes.   Well I mean other than in Japanese things.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    If it's being used in English, no matter how little, it's a Loanword.
  • ViviVivi
    $80+ per session
    Wonder what the new name will be.
  • BecNoirBecNoir
    Mexican fag
    I'm actually OK with this.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Can someone courtesy-link the rename thread here please?
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    As long as Nakama stays as a redirect, I'm fine with this.

  • ninjaclownninjaclown
    On the one hand, I'm became familiar with their definitions because I heard them under those dialect words first. On the other hand...they're just not english. If it's super important, I say go for it.
  • inkblotinkblot
    000
    ^^^
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Thread is here
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    I really don't care about this. I just hope the bitching will end.
  • ninjaclownninjaclown
    You know some people will probably add this to their personal lists of why they think TvT sucks now.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Eh, I don't particularly care myself as long as it means we also get to rename some other silly shit...

    -looks at Mickey Mousing and Tsundere-
  • ninjaclownninjaclown
    Juan's making a list, checking it twice...
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    But Mickey Mousing is what the thing is actually called.
  • HatterHatter
    Glaives are better.
    I thought that was when you wore pants but no shirt. You know, like Donald Ducking.
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    And Tsundere is actually a thing.  :<
  • ninjaclownninjaclown
    Never met one.
  • ForzareForzare
    edited 2011-07-09 23:51:30
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    A thing in fiction and fandom, I mean.  It's an established term, not an arbitrarily taken japanese name like "nakama."
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Tsundere could easily get a rename that isn't a Japanese loanword. Besides, it's not as if its exclusive to anime. Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit, the pagequote is from Hey Arnold.


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