Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20151020211700/@comment-24993958-20151028203043

Ok,I'm relaxed and rested, so let’s go for round 2 and see what I missed.

JohnBloodhawk wrote: ~Basic Info~

Name: Vatră "Cărbune" Van Fyyt

CNR ((Color Name Rule)): "Vatră" in Roman is "Hearth"; a place of fire. "Cărbune" in Roman is "Charcoal" or "coal". As colorations, it falls into a mix of red and black, as if staring into a fireplace or forge.

Preferred Name: Cărbune Nicovală ((detests using his birth name, given his history and took his grand fathers name))

...Oh, right...you know when I said be more careful I meant...actually being...let me try that again.

Grammar stuff:

a)Romanian…most of the words you used are Romanian. We have Roman roots, yes; but Roman is not a language, at least not one I’m familiar with. I do know of Latin, which was used by Romans, and I also know of Romanian, which was used by Romanians.

b)Weiß is white in German, but in order to get the name pronounced right to a western audience, the crew changed it to Weiss; I generally didn’t do that with characters I made (Viciu and Aluna for instance) but I also didn’t pick words that you cannot reasonably expect a non native speaker to have a clue how to say it.

For that reason I’d recommend you alter the name into Vatra Curbune Nicovala…let me explain...

While Vatră means "Hearth", Vatra means “The hearth”, same for Nicovală and Nicovala, so you can use these the versions without the ă while still maintaining the spirit of their meaning. It’s more or less a universal rule for every noun that ends with that.



As for Cărbune…well; Cur is pronounced in English the same way you would pronounce căr in Romanian, so it’s basically doing to it what RWBY did with Weiß, changing it so people can pick up how to pronounce it easier.

The end result...should...be a much more functional name compared to what you are currently using...in theory