telepaths, sound changes, & Final Fantasy

On Wednesday, April 4, 2001, at 02:51 , Muke Tever wrote:

> Ooh, they have those in Final Fantasy Tactics.  Only but they wrote it
> 'Mindflare'.  There's a lot of fun transliteration differences in that
> game... I set myself to find the sources for most of the monster names
> (names of individual monsters, not of species).  Most of them are pretty
> transparently Greek, only transliterated without distinguishing
> aspirated/unaspirated stops, or long vowels, and l/r differences to be
> expected in a translation from the Japanese:  Persepone for Persephonê,
> Garateia for Galateia... some are more difficult:  Ribentina < Latin
> _Libentina_ 'Venus', Rukoprone < Lykophrôn?  ...Sorry, this is way
> irrelevant ;)
I thought it was quite interesting.


Andy

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