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   JordiGH (jordigh@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 06:14:23 JST JordiGH

   Aeris is a better name than Aerith. It sounds like the real Greek name Eris. Aerith sounds like a lisp.

   Both names are the same to Japanese ears, so we should be allowed to pick which one sounds better to our English ears. Final Fantasy is full of names that got messed up like that in the Japanese-English roundtrip. Barret was supposed to be Bullet. Rydia is probably Lydia. We have no idea what Ogre Nix/Ogyrenyx/Organics is supposed to be.

   Nomura has no idea. We, English speakers, should be allowed to pick the names we like better. It's all a bunch of made-up fantasy nonsense, anyway.

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 06:14:21 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     @JordiGH I'm sympathetic to this line of reasoning, but the main problem with it is that if you take it to it's logical conclusion you have to call him Claude instead of Cloud, and that's just way less cool

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 06:19:50 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     @JordiGH yeah, I guess I was getting at a slightly different point; that we should try to read into the original intent, but that's not really what you were saying

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     JordiGH (jordigh@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 06:19:51 JST JordiGH

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     @technomancy We've had this discussion you and I, many times. I love the Claude theory. But what I'm saying right now is that we should choose the name we like better. Cloud is cooler, agreed.