How often do you use FF11 Race names as derogatory FFXIV names?

[Lorielle]

Looks like I hit a nerve

Not really. People just like being really technical on the forums. Enjoy your stay.

[Blazer]

Looks like I hit a nerve

You sure showed him...

As one of the people who admittedly "can't let go" of XI. I try to make an effort to call them by their 14 names, but I don't think anyone cares if their XI names are used. I honestly can't see how it would be derogatory to call a roe "galka". It just seems silly to me if someone takes offense to that. These are iconic races that a lot of us spent around 10 years with in XI. Yes, XIV has been out for 5 years, but old habits die hard.

[Ramien]

I only whisper "Galka" to myself to remind me of the better days when they had tails.

Losing the tails is a small price to pay for the awesomeness that is Admiral Merlwyb.

[Raiya]

Galka = FFXI Living enbodiment of "There Are No Girls on the Internet!" :P

[Seraphyna]

I don't care for the 14 names.

Lala fell down the well? No, they're Taru.... or footballs.

Elfs = knife-ears.

Tail-less Galka.

You get the point.

[Sapphic]

I don't care for the 14 names.

Why not call Miqo'te Viera? or Roe as Shumi, Lalafells as Burmecians maybe also, not forgetting Hyur as, oh, I dunno.Gria?

[kyuven]

if i didn't PLAY a miqo'te, i'd probably call them something simpler.
But in truth all the names are pretty short and easy to type in both games so i just call em what they are, since there ARE significant differences. For example, Roes don't have tails and reproduce normally, Lalafell are generally taller and look more like cartoon characters than wind-up toys, and Miqo'te are VERY different from Mithra, being simultaneously less catlike and more catlike in some places, while being less ambiguous when it comes to whether they're completely fur covered or not (due to Mithra tails being the same color as their skin, there was always some ambiguity on that front)
Lalafell is just as easy as Taru-taru (and they're far less annoying)
Miqo'te is a little more complex than Mithra but whatever
Roegadyn can be shortened easily, and Galka is simple.


The only ones that bug me are the other two: Hume/Hyur and Elezen/Elvaan.
THEY'RE HUMANS AND ELVES! There's nothing that really differentiates them from elves and humans from other lore, yet they insist on giving them different names...I guess it's because, originally, they didn't want to "dehumanize" the other races so gave the human analogs a fantastical name, but the whole elf thing is just silly...