Va'al wrote:You should look into the various international translations of the English names. Italy has/had a particularly fun (?) way with those.
RhA wrote:Va'al wrote:You should look into the various international translations of the English names. Italy has/had a particularly fun (?) way with those.
Didn't BW Inferno end up as 'Formicula' or something like that?
I have a DVD in which the American names are translated into Dutch for the subtitles. Double awesom is that they never bothered to learn the actual names of the characters. Powerglide ends up as 'Krachtzwever' and Mirage ends up as 'Morade'.
kratchzwever is awesome!RhA wrote:I have a DVD in which the American names are translated into Dutch for the subtitles. Double awesom is that they never bothered to learn the actual names of the characters. Powerglide ends up as 'Krachtzwever' and Mirage ends up as 'Morade'.
good call. deathsaurus is something my 2 year old niece could come up with. dezarus is neat though, especially if you think of the "zar" as "csar" giving him a regal quality.ZeroWolf wrote:One that I can never get my head around is dezarus/desarus / deathsarus. I can never imagine that anyone would choose that as there name
ZeroWolf wrote:One that I can never get my head around is dezarus/desarus / deathsarus. I can never imagine that anyone would choose that as there name
ZeroWolf wrote:Then in that case why not just keep that word? Why bother with the clunky deathsarus
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:Then in that case why not just keep that word? Why bother with the clunky deathsarus
A better question would be "Why do we have such a problem with nonsense words?"
Kibble wrote:Slag and Spastic were my faves. Thanks for ruining them, UK!
shajaki wrote:
i might not be letting the convoys go, but... convoys a good name! what about lio convoy? its good on its own, leo prime always bugged me.
Optimum Supreme wrote:shajaki wrote:
i might not be letting the convoys go, but... convoys a good name! what about lio convoy? its good on its own, leo prime always bugged me.
Lio Convoy makes little sense. The whole Convoy name is because of the short lived 70's trucker/cb radio fad (and in particular a novelty song based on the fad by CW McCall) that they apparently still had on their minds in Japan when making the Diaclone line. It's just weird to apply that sort of thing to a lion or really anything but a semi.
ZeroWolf wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:Then in that case why not just keep that word? Why bother with the clunky deathsarus
A better question would be "Why do we have such a problem with nonsense words?"
That is a good question...Who was it that first used the name deathsarus?
Kibble wrote:Slag and Spastic were my faves. Thanks for ruining them, UK!
Optimum Supreme wrote:shajaki wrote:
i might not be letting the convoys go, but... convoys a good name! what about lio convoy? its good on its own, leo prime always bugged me.
Lio Convoy makes little sense. The whole Convoy name is because of the short lived 70's trucker/cb radio fad (and in particular a novelty song based on the fad by CW McCall) that they apparently still had on their minds in Japan when making the Diaclone line. It's just weird to apply that sort of thing to a lion or really anything but a semi.
Carnivius_Prime wrote:Optimum Supreme wrote:shajaki wrote:
i might not be letting the convoys go, but... convoys a good name! what about lio convoy? its good on its own, leo prime always bugged me.
Lio Convoy makes little sense. The whole Convoy name is because of the short lived 70's trucker/cb radio fad (and in particular a novelty song based on the fad by CW McCall) that they apparently still had on their minds in Japan when making the Diaclone line. It's just weird to apply that sort of thing to a lion or really anything but a semi.
Also Convoy suggests a group and not an individual. It never sounded much like a heroic name, never mind for the leader of the heroes. And yeah that song always comes into my head. I remember the first time I heard that the japanese Optimus Prime was called Convoy and I thought man, that's a stupid name...
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