Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-63.249.41.72-20150316033558

Ok, so in E8V2 it was confirmed that naming all of the characters after colors is an actual cultural practice in Remnant, but wouldn't that imply that all the languages of earth (French, German, etc) would have to exist in Remnant? If not, how do they know that Weiss means White, Blake means Blake, Jaune means Yellow, etc? But if they DO exist in Remnant, why is Weiss being mispronounced? Why is Yang Xiao Long referred to as "Yang" but Lie Ren is referred to as "Ren"? Why is everything being written/spoken in "English"? The creators have already confirmed that real life countries don't exist in RWBY, so why are they using real life languages to name their kids? For plenty of character names, the color relations are from things that just are a color (rubies are red, emeralds are green, the sun is yellow, etc), but if French, German, Old English, Chinese, Greek, and other real life languages (or some form of them) don't exist in Remnant, then a lot of parents are naming their kids utter gibberish and somehow associating them with colors.

On that note, how are names like Roman, Summer, Peter, Bartholomew or James associated with colors? Roman and Summer don't mean any thing color related (except for roman candles, but they're fireworks that shoot out a multitude of colors. It'd be like naming a character "rainbow", which would be dumb as hell, and summer is a season with no real color association). Bartholomew is Hebrew for "son of Talmai" and James comes from the name Jacob, which is Hebrew for "he grasps the heel", so no color association there. And Peter is supposed to be related to color because it comes from the Greek word for stone? Bullshit.

The surnames "Rose" and "Port" both reference red (assuming the latter is supposed to be a reference to Port wine), "Torchwick" and "Ironwood" sort of mean orange/red and grey respectivly, but Oobleck is only related to green because of Dr. Seuss and ''Bartholomew and the Oobleck. ''So does that mean that Dr. Seuss or some form of his work exists in Remnant?

What about Neptune's name? The only way Neptune connects to blue is because of the Roman ocean god and the blue planet of the same names (at least Mercury is also a grey element ... assuming that the periodic table exists in Remnant). Does Roman mythology or the solar system exist in Remnant? (The Roman translation for Neptune is "wet,damp,clouds" ... which if that's supposed to be the color connection it's even worse than the Peter/Stone connection)

Maybe the writers will make me eat my words and explain all my concerns later on, but if they don't, this will end up being a serious plot hole. 