The thing to remember is that "Ragna" is "Laguna" when converted directly into English. It's pretty well-known that the closest approximation that the Japanese have to 'R' and 'L' is somewhere between the two of them. And the Japanese don't have an equivalent to a single consenant (with one exception). Their consenants are always attached to vowels. However, certain vowels tend to be "underpronounced", and one of them is a syllable that ends with a 'u' sound and is immediately followed by another syllable as part of the same word. As a result the syllables that make up La-Gu-Na could be heard as 'Ragna'. Syllables with '-u' more or less are used whenever the vowel sound is superfluous to the pronounciation of the word.
To use another example, my name - Joseph - would be most likely spelled using the syllables Jo-Se-Fu. junior Subject : Re: [gundam] More Random 00 Thoughts Date : Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:46:34 +0000 >From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : [email protected] I am confused about this, as at least the Concave sub clearly separate those two out - when Kinoue was talking about it, it was refer to as Laguna Harvey, while when Nena and they were discussing it, it was refer to as Ragna (they didn't keep the same spelling suggest when the soldier overheard Nena's talking, she was referring to Ragna, while he mis-heard it and change it to Laguna). I think Kinoue might be looking at the wrong thing, but it might end up pointing her to the right direction, which most likely is going to get her killed.
