Iifa. I like to say...
"The Iifa tree is really Iffy!"
iifa
Lifa
Iifa. I like to say...
"The Iifa tree is really Iffy!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4
...*holds up free hugs sign.*
Until fairly recently, I thought it was Lifa, not Iifa. My reasons were fairly simple:
Capital I does look a lot like a lowercase l.
Lifa sounds close to the word life, which given the role of the tree in the game and the Tree of Life in mythology makes sense.
On a related note, a lot of words in English begin with Li-, but not with Ii-, and the words with ii anywhere are often borrowed words like Hawaii.
So reading it quickly, Lifa made more sense than Llfa or Iifa.
I feel ya BG, you make some good points.
But why would a place in the game be always referred to with a lower case letter?
I wish I could climb that tree.
That's what I was thinking. Lindblum, Alexandria, lifa? Uh no. It'd be Lifa if it had an L. L makes more sense in English and is easier to say, but I know it as Iifa so am used to that.
I know proper nouns are supposed to be capitalized, but since the lowercase interpretation nearly matched a real English word that made sense contextually I found it easier to assume the translators had simply forgotten and put it in lowercase than to assume it was correctly written word with unconventional spelling. I freely admit it was the wrong assumption but I still contend it was a reasonable one to make.
The first time I played it through I thought it was the Lifa tree, I was embarrassed when I found out it was Iifa ;_;
For the longest time i thought it was the Lifa tree...then i realized it was Iifa tree, but i still say Lifa anyway because it sounds better and actually makes sense.
People dislike FFIX because they're horrible idiots. - Kawaii Ryűkishi
"One-Winged Angel" is far and away the best final boss song ever
composed. - Kawaii Ryűkishi