please God just call it port

[Bourne_Endeavor]

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.

Isn't that a bit pedantic though? Leftward and Rightward are, essentially, left and right with "ward" added.

[IsuzuSento]

Isn't that a bit pedantic though? Leftward and Rightward are, essentially, left and right with "ward" added.

I was just using it as an example of what it's like. It's simple for Japanese because of the structure of their language. They don't have a specific kanji for port or starboard, but the Japanese nautical terms used in the attack are translated as port/starboard. Their kanji literal translations are "left ship" and "right ship". The French uses their standard nautical ones and based on this thread, so does the German.