That would imply that the fan-subbers have access to a hidden source of information regarding the series, since so far as I know there hasn't been anything publicly revealed about these names other than what we've seen in the series. Personally, I find that HIGHLY unlikely. More likely, the fan-subbers decided to use the same logic that RR suggested when naming the "R/Lagna" identified by the Throne Meisters, and decided to use the version that pops up as a name (there's a street named "Laguna" not far from where I live) for the man.
I wouldn't be surprised if the two do turn out to be something different. But I'm sticking with the "random fan-subber guesses" theory on the differing spelling of the names for now. junior Subject : Re: [gundam] More Random 00 Thoughts Date : Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:33:10 +0000 >From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : [email protected] -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Joseph Riggs" > > > 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. I do understand that part - I am just saying if the one doing is subbing bother to make sure they are different, then it's different - originally, I thought it was just a mistranslation or whatever, since the Japanese sound for both is basically the same (or very similar). Since they have different names, then it must be two separate thing - one is a person, and another is probably another super computer or something along those lines.
