Talk:Schwi Dola/@comment-2600:8803:BC00:4B:0:0:0:1010-20181013170236

Everyone who says Shuvi over saying Schwi is a goddamned moron. When Schwi gives her designation number, the first character is 'Ü'. That alone should tell you it's German or Hungerarian, as those are the only two languages that use the umlaut in writing. What's an umlaut? The two dots above a letter is called an umlaut [pronounced o͝om - lout], which is a German word meaning "change of sound" [um "about", laut "sound"]. Anime often borrows words from other known languages, either cause they think it sounds cool or for shits and giggles. But in the case of Shuvi, you're taking a German word, translating it to Japanese, and then phonetically converting it to English, or rather Engrish. Schwi sounds kinda like Shuvi, if you say it really slow as if you didn't know how to speak German or English very well.

Look, I get it. You saw a trash-tier fantrans or read an OP light novel trans and you're just sticking to your guns because totallyjapanese852001's dub/trans seemed legit. However, English is a Proto-Germanic derivative, so we should therefore be more accustomed to taking the German words in their original contexts and not funneling them through another language. Shuvi looks Japanese. Schwi looks German. If this wiki is catering to the West, um....Germany is western. Shuvi isn't canon. It's shit translating. You don't take a word in German, write it in kanji, and then try to pronounce it in English. You just say the German word. Why is this a hard concept? Is the fandom of No Game No Life just troglodytes waiting for season two? And what kind of shit admins run this wiki if they correctly state her nickname is Schwi but call her Shuvi literally everywhere else? I just checked, excluding the comments section, Shuvi is said 16 times in this wiki. That would not take any effort to correct. Ctrl + F and fix.

And I honestly hate myself for ranting like this, especially given that I loved this show but only recently found out there was a movie. But Shuvi just doesn't sound right and Schwi is short for Schwarzer [which means A black object or being in German; a neat contrast to Shiro meaning white in Japanese.], the name she initially calls herself before Riku shortens it to Schwi, which doesn't make sense if you say Shuvi. This contrast is lost on the viewer/reader when you morons use Shuvi.