Originally posted by Kawaii Ryűkishi
They didn't mix anything up. Unne is Une is Unne. Both FFI's Unne and FFIII's Unne are spelled the same way in Japanese, so it makes sense to spell them the same way in English.
FFIII's Unne also happened to be a quirky old lady with a parrot on her shoulder.
Just curious, but are there geminata ns in Japanese? U-ne and Un-ne?
Well, I don't know what germinata means, but anyway...
In my understanding of Japanese (I know a little) those words would be spelt differently:
Unne = u - n - ne
Une = u - ne
They probably have different meanings as well, like Rikku from ff10 (ri - k - ku) and Riku from KH (ri - ku).
Yeah, I'm a bit on that track too. Now that I think 'bout it, Nerrick seems more "Ciddy" than Dr.Unne.Originally posted by BobDarkavenger
I always though of Nerrick as the Cid of Final Fantasy
"Take care, Ho!"
- Dwarf from FFIV
The only way you can translate from Japanese to English and back again is by sound, not by letter. If pay attention to the letters you'll end up with nonsense. Une and Unne are both pronounced the same in English (to me), so they're spelled the same in Japanese. In Japanese there's only one way to spell any given pronunciation (not counting kanji, anyways).
Unne is half right.... The way to transliterate Japanese words is by using an exact transliteration. So for example, even though "Fuji" is pronounced more like "huji" it's still spelled "Fuji". However, Unne is not a Japanese word, so the transliteration can only be guessed at. If it was spelled "U-tsu-ne" or (I'm guessing here) "U-n-ne" the correct spelling would PROBABLY be Unne, but it might also be Urnne. It gets kinda screwey like that...
Pretty sure it's just "u-ne."
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