[ SECRET POST #284 ]

[shahni.livejournal.com]

⌈ Secret Post #284 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

- First post is NAME THAT FANDOM, Semagic needs an option to post comments! >D

Secrets Left to Post: 06 pages, 123 secrets from Secret Submission Post #041.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!fandom, 0 not!secret, 0 repeat
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Wednesday, October 17th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

5, 9, 21, 23

[sincere]

5. Integra is my hero forever. There is absolutely no question in my mind why Alucard is obsessed with her. And they are utterly perfect. I think having an Alucard would be scary for me, though. (I'm not as strong as she is.)

9. All "pairing names" suck. Stop mushing two names together and just spell them out, losers. It's not that many more characters. /total tangent

21. I'm starting to think that, as "well-intentioned" as people are when they tell you that they love what you do with a character but hate that character normally, it never, ever works. :\ I've been offended very recently by someone with well-intentioned compliments about how I make characters the complimenter hates seem likable and interesting, and all I come away with is this sick feeling. Why can't you just compliment me? Why do you have to smear something I enjoy, characters I love, in the same stroke? It doesn't make anyone feel good to know that you hate their favorite characters, but they're tolerable the way you write them.

23. Lawl, that happens a lot. The Japanese don't know how to romanize their long vowels, I'm going to be honest with you. ♥ If you romanize literally, his name is Yuuri. In your own examples, the show is also called "Kyo Kara Maoh" when it's romanized straight as "Kyou Kara Maou". But romanization is really subjective -- no one is wrong here. ^_^

Re: 5, 9, 21, 23

[kinneas.livejournal.com]

Actually it's not subjective so much as there are different technical styles of romaji. Maoh is no less straightly-romanized than Maou.

Re: 5, 9, 21, 23

[sincere]

Yes, it is, but that's what I mean when I say that there's no wrong party here. You would be correct to romanize it "Maoh" according to a certain style of romanization -- but romanizing it straight, there is no "h" there. The kana are "ma-o-u", just like Yuuri's name is "yu-u-ri". It's spelled differently depending on what kind of romanization style you use, but the literal reading, the reading of the furigana, is "ma-o-u."

Re: 5, 9, 21, 23

[kinneas.livejournal.com]

If you were to look at the individual katakana, you'd be right, but we're looking at it in the context of the whole word so "romanizing it straight" is still either way.

Anyway, in the case of this secret you're right (except there is no yu kana, just an extender), and the poster is an arrogant idiot who needs to maybe wikipedia katakana :(