Talk:Reactivate Majestical Imperial/Music

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xxxx, the stage x boss[edit source]

I noticed that in the latest round of edits, the format for the first line of the music comments was changed from

  • This is the theme of xxxx, the stage x boss.

to

  • This is xxxx's theme, the stage x boss.

This change feels odd because normally, the stuff that comes after a comma describes what's directly before it. Therefore, it now (unintentionally) looks like the theme itself is the boss, and it feels strange to read. My preference is for the first version, but does anyone have any other ideas or arguments in support of the second one?

I also noticed that tildes (~) were added in as punctuation marks. They're accepted in Japanese, but they're not used as a punctuation mark in English... Furthermore, they're used to extend vowel sounds, so it (again) feels weird seeing them put after consonant sounds at the end of words. For example, if we're going to keep the tilde, it shouldn't be written as 'though~' but as 'tho~ugh' Releska (talk) 08:27, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

The way I looked at it was that "of" and "-'s" are both possessions, meaning that "xxxx's theme" and "theme of xxxx" have the same meanings (I didn't take the stuff after the comma into regards, I guess). But now that you mention it, maybe it is oddly worded like that. The second point was an assumption I admit, thinking that "~" at the end are just punctuation marks rather than extended vowel sounds... My bad. ^^' I'll get the two points changed back to how it was before. ― Tony64 (Talk/Con.) 13:24, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

Get Ready 号[edit source]

I'm the one who put the current translation of Tsugumi's song title when the game came out, buuuut I've, since realized that it's inaccurate? And I'd like to change it. The "号" (go) part is a suffix used for vehicle names in Japanese (example: "タイタニック号" = "RMS Titanic"). (This even applies to types of vehicles that don't have prefixes/suffixes in English, such as motorcycles; "キャプテンアメリカ号" being used to refer to the 'Captain America' motorcycle from the film Easy Rider, for example)

Back in 2014 I thought it was a pun on "get ready, go!", which... isn't out of the question for the RMI theme? But applying that to Tsugumi's BPoHC theme results in a total nonsense phrase. Now that I'm looking at both titles next to each other, it's much more obvious (imo) that ゲットレディー号 and レッツエンド号 are just meant to be the names of vehicles. (Tsugumi's, if I had to guess.)

Problem is I dunno what prefix/suffix to slap on the things. Like, if it was ships it'd be easy-- "S.S. Get Ready" and "S.S. Let's End"-- but, like, bikes and horses don't have that sort of thing? At least not something as immediately recognizable. I thought something like Tsugumi's initials would work, but since that's leaning out of "translation" and into "Woolseyism" territory, I figured I should bring it up on the talk page like this first... Gilde (talk) 00:13, 19 March 2018 (UTC)