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炎 Toby

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Apr 30, 2016 @ 5:55am

Is anyone else seriously bothered by how Neko Arc is spelled?

It was apparently romanized originally as Neco Arc by French Bread.. but why? The C doesn't really make any sense in Japanese, does it? And since Neco obviously refers to the fact that it's a damn cat, why did it pass? I honestly expected Arcsys to change this so it actually makes sense, but no go.

ネコアルク = Neko-Aruku, by the way.

Seriously though, this has bothered me for months now.

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Originally posted by PrecipiKitten:

6 years late lol, but both "Neco" and Yumiduka" have to do with different types of romanization of japanese

For Neco Arc, it's mainly just because they decided to use a "c"
Up to around the 17th century, all Japanese text with the consonant /k/ was only ever romanized as "ca/cu/ci/ce/co", but now "ka/ku/ki/ke/ko" is a lot more common, though they're both basically interchangeable and you'll sometimes find text in other japanese media, like titles on manga covers, romanized with a "c" instead of a "k"

The reason Yumiduka is spelled with a d is because when written phonetically in Hiragana, it uses the づ character, which WAS actually pronounced and romanized as "du" during the Kamakura period from the late 12th century to the mid 14th century
Overtime, its pronunciation started to merge with ず and they both came to be pronounced as "zu" during the Edo period
The most common type of romanization we'd see, Modified Hepburn, doesn't distinguish between づ and ず so they're both written as "zu", but other types of romanization like Nihon-Shiki and Wāpuro write づ as "du"

This clip explains how those character's pronunciations merged in a way that I think is easier to understand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqDnQjlK2Ac&ab_channel=Dogen

Hope that helped clear it up a little :)

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DuckieMcduck has MELTY BLOOD Actress Again Current Code

Apr 30, 2016 @ 7:43am

Pantsu

Apr 30, 2016 @ 8:01am

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Apr 30, 2016 @ 8:54am

炎 Toby

Apr 30, 2016 @ 9:22am

i hate you all

Pantsu

Apr 30, 2016 @ 10:37am

JakatoXtra has MELTY BLOOD Actress Again Current Code

Apr 30, 2016 @ 2:26pm

Yeah I actually prefer it with a K instead of a C but it is what it is unless they can convince them to change it....With that said

炎 Toby

Apr 30, 2016 @ 2:29pm

Originally posted by EcchiPantsu:
:mbnecoup:

die the death

Originally posted by JakatoXtra:
Yeah I actually prefer it with a K instead of a C but it is what it is unless they can convince them to change it....With that said :mbnyufufu:

damnit

匚闩丂丁仨尺

May 1, 2016 @ 1:06pm

DuckieMcduck has MELTY BLOOD Actress Again Current Code

May 1, 2016 @ 1:22pm

Originally posted by ☮ Shiki Ryougi:
Originally posted by EcchiPantsu:
:mbnecoup:
die the death

To add insult to injury, some of these are named "neco"

炎 Toby

May 1, 2016 @ 2:39pm

Originally posted by UnluckyDuckie:
Originally posted by ☮ Shiki Ryougi:
die the death
To add insult to injury, some of these are named "neco" :mbgaan:

indeed

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