please God just call it port

[IsuzuSento]

Funny thing about all this is, apparently, the Japanese equivalent translates to "Right" and "Left". Port, Larboard and Starboard are all Koji Fox just trying to be clever.

I really wish people would stop repeating this statement. It's wrong. The Japanese nautical terms just include the kanji for left and right in their names. It's effectively as if port and starboard were called leftward/rightward instead.

The French translation uses bâbord and tribord which are their equivalent to port/starboard. I don't know what the German one does.