Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27447621-20160730160356/@comment-25396609-20160826230738

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: Yes, but we should discard that explanation, not just because it's too hand-wavey, but also because it means I could come here, name an OC "Bob" and say "In Remnant's language it's a word that does fit CNR, it's just that it's closest real-life aproximation is Bob".

In other words, it allows for extremely convenient justifications that can't really be proven wrong, like it or not. That is literally the opposite of how interpretive translation works.

Interpretive translation means the word we hear; i.e Neptune, does not refer to the planet or god from our world, but to an aproximate equivalent on Remnant. For example, it may still refer to the eight planet from remnant's sun, even though that planet is not the neptune we know.

Or it may refer to the god of the sea in a historical pantheon aproximately similar, but not identical to, the roman pantheon of our world.

Bob (typically short for Robert) would be an aproximate translation of a name with a similar root.

Specifically, Robert come from the germanic hrodebert -meaning bright fame- and can easily be tied in to the CNR; providing another example of interpretive naming.