Please don't call it a Glamour Commode!

[SenorPatty]

In French, a commode is another term for furniture.

Yep. As a person born in Quebec, Canada, the first thing that comes to mind when I read that word is furniture where you store clothes.

So to mimic OP's request in a fashion...

Please SE, don't change it. Depending on your region and age, commode means furniture. Thanks.

[DeaconMoore]

In French, a commode is another term for furniture.

Hence my question about their method of translating from Japanese to English

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I'll just leave this here.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Commode.jpg

The fashion for integrating Asian lacquer panels (decorated with a resin varnish made from the sap of a tree) into European furniture was at its height in the mid-18th century when this commode (chest of drawers) was made.

[Enkidoh]

Yep. As a person born in Quebec, Canada, the first thing that comes to mind when I read that word is furniture where you store clothes.

So to mimic OP's request in a fashion...

Please SE, don't change it. Depending on your region and age, commode means furniture. Thanks.

Exactly, also it's something the localization team are aware of, that a seemingly innocent word can have a wildly different meaning or context in a different country - it's something they try to take into account but simply cannot overcome every time (a while ago a similar situation occurred where an innocent and legitimate name for a BTN tool was revealed to be a slang term for a certain part of the male anatomy in another country (Philippines I believe it was?), and yes, there were player demands that be changed as well). So it's just something you have to just live with and accept it as just part of the English language's quirks.

(I mean, us Aussies don't get annoyed every time we hear an American say "we're rooting for you!" either way - 'root' as a verb in American English means simply to encourage or cheer someone on, while in Australian English however it is a slang term that means "to have sex". Quietly chuckle like schoolgirls behind your backs maybe... ).

[Riko_Futatabi]

While we're at it, let's not call them "Glamour" prisms anymore. I'd much rather have the alternate English translation: "Mirage" prism.

That's my thoughts on this, byeee.

[Canadane]

While we're at it, let's not call them "Glamour" prisms anymore. I'd much rather have the alternate English translation: "Mirage" prism.

I don't think that's the translation, that's the name the Japanese use directly.

[Riko_Futatabi]

I don't think that's the translation, that's the name the Japanese use directly.

Oh well...then it never needed translated in the first place lol.

[Naraku_Diabolos]

Exactly, also it's something the localization team are aware of, that a seemingly innocent word can have a wildly different meaning or context in a different country - it's something they try to take into account but simply cannot overcome every time (a while ago a similar situation occurred where an innocent and legitimate name for a BTN tool was revealed to be a slang term for a certain part of the male anatomy in another country (Philippines I believe it was?), and yes, there were player demands that be changed as well). So it's just something you have to just live with and accept it as just part of the English language's quirks.

Well, I made a comment to Fern that the Moogle named "Puki" was offensive because "puki" in Tagalog means p_ssy. He had no idea about that.

[Jellybums]

Well, I made a comment to Fern that the Moogle named "Puki" was offensive because "puki" in Tagalog means p_ssy. He had no idea about that.

This is a good example. There's a lot of ambiguous dialogue/elements in the game that make for interesting exchange with other players.

MT: unahin mo yung puki (Pick up Puki first.)
OTleaf: Ha? (Huh?)
MT: yung puki don kunin mo (Get that Puki over there.)
OTleaf: k. patay kang puki ka. (K. I'm coming for you, Puki.)

Commode in most furniture companies' catalogs is just a chest of drawers. BUT if you wanna make a play for words, you could. Could be fun.