please God just call it port

[Sekkei]

I wouldn't be surprised if the other languages did not use nautical terms for Omega. Pretty sure The Temple of the Fist boss does not for everyone else. Localization expected everyone having been on or near a boat twice now...

[Fyce]

I wouldn't be surprised if the other languages did not use nautical terms for Omega.

French does. It uses "babord" and "tribord", which are the nautical terms for left and right on a ship.
Since the french version almost always follows the japanese one, there's a fair chance that actually every language uses nautical terms for that attack.

... And I'm pretty sure they did it on purpose in order to make that attack a bit more difficult to do. Tsukuyomi also comes to mind for that, but she doesn't do it twice in a row while doing a 180.

I assume it's Americans doing the translation... choosing 16th century English nautical terms (which have since been updated in the following 300 years) is a bizarre choice... where they getting them from?

The english translation is known to use very old terms and expressions in its localization. That's one of the many liberties the english team took (alongside getting far from the japanese version sometimes, to the point where the sentences have completly different meanings).

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[Ilyrian]

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i'm not angry about it - I feel like I've learned something today. But these aren't just 'old-terms' they are literal dead phrases. I have never seen or come across it any literature, let alone spoken word.

[Shurrikhan]

i'm not angry about it - I feel like I've learned something today. But these aren't just 'old-terms' they are literal dead phrases. I have never seen or come across it any literature, let alone spoken word.

The term is still used often in fiction. Robert Jordan's, E. Feist, and Brandon Sanderson, iirc, all use the symmetry of larboard/starboard over starboard and... port.

It still seems the more prevalent choice in most of my world literature anthologies from back in university (I was an English major), even 1800s to modern.