| abstract | - Do we want to change these to include the foreign words? The only problem I an think of with that is that often, these only occur in the Japanese version of the attack, and are already in parentheses - so we would either have no parentheses at all, or extra parentheses, depending on whether we made the parentheses part of the code or not. Also, since the prefixes for this are based on the native name for the language, should we try to turn the "Ja" bits we have all over the place to "Ni" or "Nih"? Or is that too unfamiliar to be useful? Basically, would being consistent be confusing?Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day. But set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. 14:46, 10 October 2008 (UTC) There was something that I saw that I did enjoy and tried to copy on the Darcmon page. You know how we have ", lit" when we provide translations? How about we replace that "lit" with an abbreviation of the language we're translating from? Um, I personally want to keep the Ja and keep it to things an English reader would most recognize, as I believe that that's what this wiki's catering to, an English-speaking audience. Lanate (talk) 17:25, 10 October 2008 (UTC) That's essentially what these templates are for, yes, since that seems to be the standard on wikipedia, and it makes more sense. As for "keeping it what most English readers would recognize" - this wasn't really done to be PC or anything, but simply because, from what I've seen, the consensus on wiki is to use abbreviations for what the language names itself - but seemingly, only for European languages (so, most have the abbreviations you would expect, except for Esp). If they're not recognizable, or we agree that it's not a big deal, we can go back to two-letter "La", "Sp", "Fr", and "It". If we convert it to templates, it should be much easier in the future to decide on a method to use, or change it as we change our minds.Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day. But set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. 20:11, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
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