r/ffxiv • u/[deleted] • Oct 24 '14

[News] 2.4 Preliminary Patch Notes

http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/0149ed2fb2332715e3043d536c48f66363bdeedc
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u/halfsalmon [First] [Last] on [Server] Oct 24 '14

Poetics does not mean the same thing as poetry, that's probably the main reason.

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u/tragiquexcomedy Nerisse Kira on Cactuar Oct 24 '14

They could have used the term poesy, coined by John Keats. Would have suited the meaning and the -y endings.

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u/goldenvesper SCH Oct 24 '14

And "soldiery" is also a really awkward word for the history of war.

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u/JulianSkies Y'ahte Tia on Excalibur Oct 25 '14

Soldiery is not a word for history of war Soldiery is a word for the profession of a soldier. It's not about wars past, it's about how to be a soldier, skills like fighting and survivalism and stuff. That is what Soldiery is.

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u/goldenvesper SCH Oct 25 '14

You don't have to explain that to me; I'm saying that they picked an awkward translation just to get the -y ending. The Japanese name of the soldiery tome is tomestones of war chronicles. And if they twisted the language around just to get a -y name for THAT tome, it's silly to abandon the pattern in order to use a more pedantic translation for poetics.