Quote Originally Posted by Packetdancer View Post
This would make the Puppets' Bunker trash mobs so much less aggravating...



Yes and no. I think the original FF limited spell names to 4 characters; you had, like "FIRE" and "FIR2" and "FIR3", yes, but also Sleep was "SLEP", Temper was "TMPR", Lightning was "LIT", etc.
This, iirc, since 4 characters was sufficient on the JPN side, until the implementation of the 4th rank of spell (though the ending 'ja' can sometimes be considered a single character, since it's just a variant of 'ji'):
ファイア、ファイラ、ファイガ、ファイジャ
ブリザド、ブリザラ、ブリザガ、ブリザジャ

Though, technically those would sound out as "Faira" "Faiga" "Faija" in themselves, which would sound awkward to us (Figa, Fija), so there's a degree of change in either case.