Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-34115-20150626063702/@comment-34115-20150626072644

I should make some more notes myself.


 * English, language in general, and even writing style is something that varies from place to place. Even within a single dialect (eg: UK English, US English, ...) writing style varies. Language is also something that evolves,.
 * Style manuals are something written by organizations to keep consistency between publications from the same organization. These vary between organizations each adopting different writing styles. These are not a source of "true English" writing. They also evolve and change over time.
 * Our source material is Japanese. Japanese has no concept of case. And the nature of translation introduces even further variance beyond that within English.

EDIT: Actually Japanese goes further than that. Even the concept of spacing between words may be new. I've been trying to read Tezuka's Hinotori in Japanese. And I find words are often blended together with no separation. So even writing "千手一族" (Senju Ichizoku) isn't indicative of it being one word. (Anyone want to capture a few individual occurences of clan names in the original Japanese manga?)