NPC name- japanese developer slept on the keybord

NPC in Limsa. Name is awesome)
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Ahhh, Ahldskyf. When reading Roegadyn names, it's best to split them into two sections and read them out loud.


Ahldskyf

Ahld Skyf

Ald Skiff

Old Ship

Crazy how there are such intricate language games hidden in such facemashery, and many will fail to ever even notice.

His name means Old Ship in the Roegadyn language, a dictionary for which you can find here--http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/63110-Roegadyn-Dictionary

Enjoy.

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Originally Posted by WellFooled

His name means Old Ship in the Roegadyn language, a dictionary for which you can find here--http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/63110-Roegadyn-Dictionary

Enjoy.

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Hm... the language? Didnt know

In fact, it was Ahldskyf's name that eventually led to Fern giving us the Roegadyn naming conventions, as I recall.

I LOVE the Roegadyn names!

Interesting, I thought the same thing when I saw this NPC, until I learned about the Roegadyn naming conventions. And what I think is interesting about it is that I believe it has something to do with the A, D, S, F in the name. There's a phenomenon where you can read a word if the first and last letters are correct, no matter how jumbled the inside letters are. At least when I look at this name, the first thing to pop out is the AhlDSkyF, which I interpreted as ASDF, which we all know as the letters you would press if you press all the homerow keys with your left hand.

Additionally, Ahldskyf almost entirely consists of consonants. With A being the first letter, and Y only occasionally being considered a vowel (as in this name), it does seem to have a disproportionate number of consonants to vowels at first, further supporting the "face/keyboard" theory.

I'm totally just guessing, but I thought it was interesting.