Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-3257939-20131111020445/@comment-16502426-20131207064703

Exactly. I mean, if he really cared about making everything work as would be "correct" in our world, then Weiss, Yang, and Ren would probably have proper pronounciation. He does care a lot about keeping everything following the rules of the show's world, but I really doubt he cares if the rules of that world match the rules of our world. It's Remnant, not Earth.

Oh and yes, I definitely felt that Sun is Aladdin-like. Of course, that's only secondary to the allusion to the original Sun Wukong.