What's in a Name? (Astrologian Ver.)

[Inzoum]

I'd like to go into a little more depth, but the evil eye Oda-san is giving me right now has me frightened for my life

Oh, the irony of it all.

[lololink]

As you can see from the link I provided, 士 in Chinese can refer to soldiers, scholars, ministers, as well as gentlemen. It doesn't have to be "martial" in tone and, in fact, in modern Chinese, 士 tends to refer to learned people in general.

In effect, the difference between 士 and 師 is not as major to Chinese/Japanese as it would seem to Westerners. Yes, 師 usually means teacher. But it can also be used to refer to any learned person in general (ie, a scholar). In other words, not very different from 士.

Not really, just take a japanese dictionnary and see what words use 師 (http://jlex.org/kanji/24107 ) and what words use 士 (http://jlex.org/kanji/22763 ) You can easily see that one is clearly more about warriors while the other is words about master or teacher, it's quite easy to feel a difference when you see them both used in the game in japanese, true it's not huge but it is.

Also there are a lot of differencies between japanese and chinese, it's not really a good idea to use chinese to explain japanese. Furthermore a gentleman is supposed to know how to fight.

[Kio]

Oh, the irony of it all.

Don't you mean the eye-rony?

[Inzoum]

Don't you mean the eye-rony?

Alright, you bested me.

[dvoraen]

In ARR we've used both 'machine' and 'machina,' the former in a more general sense, the latter to refer almost solely to Garlean technology. As the former is more widely seen throughout Eorzea, we're probably going to go with the soft 'sh' sound for machinist. I'd like to go into a little more depth, but the evil eye Oda-san is giving me right now has me frightened for my life, so you'll have to wait for further details.

Given how much you've shown up at the Camp Bluefog leves, I'd think you'd be more fearful of your life from us.

I kid, of course. Until I want the bounty bonus.

[Dihya]

I'm glad to see a lot of others assuming this means we'll get that in-game library that's been hinted about as well, because I swear to god I will provide reference and cataloging services for other players Hey, that MLIS has to be good for something, right...?

[SirSaber]

But... you're an Ahriman! How could anyone possibly out evil eye you?

Oda-san as two evil eyes + an evil eyes intensifier (glasses).

I would be scared too.