Class Abbreviations

[Shougun]

In case it was appearing like I was suggesting SE needs to change job abbreviations I was mostly just describing a personal quirk preference that things have a sound over just letters.

Like you don't say L A N. You say Lan, like almost a mandarin name- lan kai or something. Often things that don't have a good sounding but potential to make a sound abbreviations / acronyms get shifted a little. Like Why-fy, or lol is often just thought as sounding akin to lul (not L O L, unless you're a valley girl "like oh my god that's so L O L" or trying to be "hip").

Or at least that's how my brain goes about it. Even if I'm not going to say it to someone at least there is a 'sound' for it in my brain. Not an important issue, at least to me, just one I think is fun to discuss and share.

The true job abbreviations:

PAL
WAR
DAR
GUN

WHI
SCH
AST
SAG

DRA
MON
SAM
NIN

BAR
MAC
DAN

BLA
SUM
RED
BLU

Haha, perfect :P

Like SAM (in the game already) and my brain is like YEE SAMURAI. But MCH.. Mmmmcch.. Ma.....ch... Matcha! If it was MAC at least it would have a strong sound association (might start some jokes on big mac job or whatever, but you'd never ever forget it lol).

They could always go with BUM for Blue Mage.

Changed my mind, it's important for SE to change the abbreviations. We need BUM.

[Iscah]

Like SAM (in the game already) and my brain is like YEE SAMURAI. But MCH.. Mmmmcch.. Ma.....ch... Matcha! If it was MAC at least it would have a strong sound association (might start some jokes on big mac job or whatever, but you'd never ever forget it lol).

I disagree - MCH works better as a condensed version of the key sounds - it reads as "mush" to me, perfectly valid as the first part of the full word, but "mack" is not.

By the same logic, ACN ("a-kun") reads fine for arcanist but ARC is bad for archer, though there isn't much room to do anything else that represents the sound better.

As for mages, I highly appreciate black mage being an explosive "blam".

[Shougun]

I disagree - MCH works better as a condensed version of the key sounds - it reads as "mush" to me, perfectly valid as the first part of the full word, but "mack" is not.

By the same logic, ACN ("a-kun") reads fine for arcanist but ARC is bad for archer, though there isn't much room to do anything else that represents the sound better.

As for mages, I highly appreciate black mage being an explosive "blam".

I disagree your disagree!! lol

Although to be fair I think neither are perfect. MAC is a clear sound, which I think makes it memorable, but it's not really the sound you'd make for pronoucing machinist. As for MCH I really don't read Mush like you do. I read MM "ch". Even if I read Mush Mush makes me think of.. mush.. and isn't a good sound either lol. Neither 'bring it home' for me, but if it was called MAC you'd be sure I'd never forget what it was referring to.

I read ACN like A-sin (because it doesn't make a natural pronouncible 'word' unit I see each letter individually first, nothing comes from ACN in word format therefore I read the letters then). A-kun makes me think you're thinking Japanese-like lol. Iscah-kun, I don't read what you read . Neither of those do I feel are great for sound effect, in terms of memorable at least. However Arc is memorable, at least to myself. Arc reactor, arc like angles, the beginning of many words (architecture), etc. Is also the beginning sound for arcanist which would have made it perfect for that job (like SAM -> Samurai or NIN -> Ninja).

I've been fine with the mages just out of seeing them soooo much in FF games, WHM, BLM, RDM, this is childhood stuff at this point. Although RED would have been so blatant and perfect when you think of it on it's own (unfortunately it breaks the consistent naming scheme for the other jobs so.. that's not ideal).

Noting again none of this is terribly important (at all lol), and just I have a bias for quick and easy memorable sounds (like CAR instead of CRP, CON was preferable to me over CNJ). Although since I've played this game for so long I usually just type out the names of what I intend if I think the abbreviation isn't that helpful or don't care to remember it (plus they only get three letters to make these work so I'm sure they do the best they can lol).