There was a time when people thought it had a goofy name and for the same reason.

Lastly, you get used to these names over time. I'm just trying explain how these names are not arbitrarily awkward sounding, but employ an underlying logic that is incompatible with the poetic rules of English, and that each language has its own rules. To be clear, it's not important that 'Triangular Strategy' is no more obvious a meaning, it's that it takes the otherwise unrelated poetic themes of 'shape' and 'acting intelligence' into relation. I think Triangle Strategy stands out becauseĪ) this was the development name that the presenter describes as being a working name, and it certainly has that utilitarian character that we typically expect from development namesī) it involves two words 'Triangle' and 'Strategy' that have no intuitive relationship.Ĭ) the word Triangle can play as an intuitive modifier through operating as an adjective: 'Triangular Strategy'. But this may work in Japanese because of the different logic behind the poetics of combining words. The word 'Sparking!' and 'Neo' don't make sense when understood in relation to each other. Western naming systems require words to logically match through linguistic means. Some of the Japanese names for games in the West may sound similarly goofy or childish to Japanese people.

It has a nonsense meaning that the Japanese developer may have used a rote translation to create. It would otherwise have the kind of name a kindergartener would produce after learning some new words. It's obvious why the localizers changed this name to the (rather ironically) more Japanese sounding name. But its Japanese name is 'Dragon Ball Z Neo Sparking! Neo'. There are many other games like this, and it seems very much a Japanese problem with English poetics.įor example, the game 'Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 2' sounds fine to Westerners because of its exotic name. Triangle Strategy stands out even further because both of its words aren't even poetically abstract or delivered in an 'exotic' language like Latin. These names sound like a computer generated name rather than one created by people.

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