Quote Originally Posted by Jonnycbad View Post
At the end of the day, they draw upon languages but ultimately they stylize it to be fantasy not to be accurate. Most of the Hingan/Doman words are bastardizations of Japanese too. They change it slightly so it resembles Japanese but isn't completely accurate, because this is Hydaelyn and not Earth.
It's this stuff that gives me a hefty respect for the namecrafting folk over there -- usually enough to counter any peeves elsewhere. (It's really only in the truly crippled use of mock-English or wasei-eigo when playing on the JP client that makes me take a moment... Though I imagine this and other languages' issues would resonate more firmly with their native speakers.)