Uhru, Wool, Cashmere? Huh?

CRtwenty · Post by **CRtwenty** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 12:50 am

Wool and Cashmere? Or Uhru and Kashimiya?

They both mean the same thing right? But which once should we use when referencing them? Personally I prefer the untranslated names myself. If he'd wanted him name to be "Wool" he'd have used Roman Characters and pronounced it in an English way. Rather then using Japanese.

Post by **Kuukai** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 12:57 am

Bear or Bea?
Crim or Kurimu?
Albireo or Arubireo?
Ovan or Ohvan?
Balmung or Barumunku?
Orca or Oruka?
W.B. Yeats or W.B. Yehtsu?
Skeith or Suke-su?
Mistral or Misutoraru?

I think I've made my point, it loses meaning when you do that... ^^; Also, the name/word in Japanese in question is "kashimia", no 'y'...

CRtwenty · Post by **CRtwenty** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 1:02 am

Yeah but all those still sound similar.

Bea and Bear are just different ways of hearing the same word. Ovan and Ohvan are alternate spellings that still sound the same.

Wool and Urhu are totally different words all together.

I will give in regards to Cashmere though. Since after listening to it, they are indeed saying "Cashmere" in a very Engrish way.

Post by **Kuukai** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 1:13 am

That's because there's no "Woo" sound in Japanese (well kinda, but that's a recent development and longstanding conventions for transliteration exist), so they just use a drawn-out "u". When you say "Woodberry" in Japanese it's "Uddoberii". "Uuru" is the way they say "Wool". Really though, if you take int oaccont available phonemes, "Baroomoonku" (oo's added to show where the "u" is voiced) sounds less like "Balmung" than "Uuru" sounds like "Wool". I mean, it has a k for crying out loud!

CRtwenty · Post by **CRtwenty** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 5:01 am

Alright... I guess it makes sense. Though it appears we've got another Silver Knight/Ginkan on our hands now. :/

Umbra · Post by **Umbra** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 7:38 am

I believe Kuukai is explaining that we don't, unless they change Wool's name, then it will still be Wool.

'Uhru' is a transliteration rather than a translation, its probably the best they could get to 'Wool' and when spoken in a Japanese accent, they do sound very similar.

Post by **Kuukai** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 2:39 pm

Exactly, it's the same dang word, just pronounced differently because they're speaking Japanese...