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Post subject: Newmans or Numans?
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 Posted: Sun Dec 30, '07, 11:20 am |
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Phantasy Star Online introduced (at least in the US) the name "Newman," where Phantasy Star IV had used "Numan." Which do you prefer, and why?
Personally I wished they had stuck with Numan. "Newman" sounds like a more generic science fiction term and I was never happy with it.
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Gaze unto me and writhe, fools Sage
Joined: Nov 1, '07
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, '07, 7:19 pm |
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Numan for sure! I despised them changing it, it was horrible NEW?Mans? Grrrr. Its like spelling it as Hewmans. XDDDD
You represent... apathy.You don't really show any emotion. You can be considered cruel and cold, but you just don't really care about anything. This is just the way you are... you're quite a challenge to get close to, and others may perceive you as boring.
Zeus was the Greek excuse for having no logical explination for lightning. Hades was for the death that baffled them. Posiedon tore apart at their shores. So Athena must have explained the people who didn't believe in the gods. |
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Guardian
Joined: Jan 7, '08
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Posted: Tue Jan 8, '08, 7:02 pm |
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Maybe "Numans + Humans = Newmans" like the son of Chaz and Rika... a new type of humans. Still I don't know if "newmans" is a translation error (if so I prefer "numans")
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UFO! Sage
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Posted: Tue Feb 12, '08, 8:39 pm |
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I didn't like the change either. It just isn't the same as the classic Numans from PSII and PSIV. :\
The dentist who pulls his own teeth has a fool for a patient.
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Guardian
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Posted: Thu Mar 27, '08, 6:04 pm |
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According to the "info section" of 'Phantasy Star Memorial Drama CD Translation' website, the term "newman" seems to be the accurate translation for nei-types (it seems PSO didn't change anything at all). We can't say "numan" is a mistranslation because we know the term "newman" was also on the first US translations of PSIV (I think it was a preference like Dark Force/Falz, Chaz/Rudy, etc.).
Quote: the Japanese describe the Neiseries as being " 新人類" (pronounced shinjinrui), which literally means "new man", or "new breed of man". Also, "newman/numan" is written as ニューマン (nyuuman) in Japanese, and ニュー(nyuu) is how the Japanese pronounce the english word "new". So then the term "newman" is meant to describe a "new man". Because of this, I have decided to go with this spelling. Also noteworthy, I believe the initials NM from NM-2011 and NM-1153 stand for "newman", since the numbers function as a serial number for how many neiseries were created.
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I'll Show You What Fear Is! Esper Apprentice
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Posted: Fri Apr 18, '08, 4:58 pm |
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Which ones plural lol >.>
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Posted: Fri Apr 18, '08, 10:48 pm |
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Newmen, maybe? 
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Gaze unto me and writhe, fools Sage
Joined: Nov 1, '07
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, '08, 2:27 am |
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Does that make us humen? rather than humans?
You represent... apathy.You don't really show any emotion. You can be considered cruel and cold, but you just don't really care about anything. This is just the way you are... you're quite a challenge to get close to, and others may perceive you as boring.
Zeus was the Greek excuse for having no logical explination for lightning. Hades was for the death that baffled them. Posiedon tore apart at their shores. So Athena must have explained the people who didn't believe in the gods.
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