Dokubachi-donar (8) vs Gordy (9): VDOTY2010: Violet Divison Round 1

[JG]

vs.

Bed sheets and batch towels aren't enough to stop these guys.

[VelcroStraps]

Gordy's the guy who screwed Lilia in F40, isn't he? Well, I'll have to give him my vote, for treating me to one of my favourite sex scenes in the Viper series.

Dokubachi deserves some respect though, for outliving most of his allies(I think) and because if it weren't for him Anri might have made it the whole way through F50 without having sex.

[Mirai Doft]

What donar means? Plus I'm sure the monsters are named after something, kuwagata means bettle right? So Dokubachi is bee?

[Rai]

I always figured it meant "donor", like they were test subjects that donated their bodies to radical genetic experimentation. Either that or Donarghe is just a nonsense word and Donar is just a shortened form of that to identify the members.

And yeah, the monsters are all named after the animal they're mutated into. Kuwagata means stag beetle, dokubachi means poison wasp.

[JG]

It does not mean donor.  It's just a shortened form of Donarghe, which is the fictional criminal organization of the Bravan series.

By the way, Donarghe is the spelling I made up.  The katakana spells "dona-ge", but I didn't want to spell it "Donage" or "Donahge" because you wouldn't know how to pronounce it.  And given that Gel operates out of the New York City branch I decided that Donarghe may have a soft R sound, much like the katakana "ka-" means car.  But I still didn't want to spell it Donarge becuase you guys would still pronounce it in two syllables like "doo-nahrge" or "doh-nahrge" when it should be pronounced in three: "doh-nahr-geh".  If you make a nor sound (like donor) instead of nahr, you're pronouncing it wrong.

[Rai]

Is there really that much distinction? As far as I know, Japanese uses the elongated "a-" for most schwa sounds, like hamburger is "hanba-ga-". And I don't know about you, but I pronounce donor with a simple "er" sound at the end, same as burger, so couldn't the Japanese transliteration follow the same principle? How would "donor" be spelled in katakana otherwise?

[JG]

Ok, I concede to you half credit.

You are right that donor is katakana-ized as "dona-", but the er in hamburger is different than the or in donor.  Hamburger is longer Rs ("hamburrgurr") than donor ("dohnur")


Ultimately though, Donarghe's spelling was my perogative as the first to translate the word to English.

[Rai]

I'm fine with that.