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Alpha Trion (RID)

2011-02-24T00:22:13Z

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{{disambig3|Alpha Trion}}
:''Alpha Trion is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]] continuity family.''

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'''Alpha Trion''' is an [[Autobot Elder]].

{{note| In 2010 Hasbro introduced a [[retcon]] naming Alpha Trion as a member of the [[Thirteen original Transformers]], and thus a likely [[Multiversal singularity|multiversal singularity]] (meaning, basically, that all Alpha Trions in the [[multiverse]] would be the same individual). Due to the lengthy histories many of these incarnations had prior to the retcon we have opted to leave their pages as separate entities, and merely note the retcon on each individual page. For the Alpha Trion that is definitively one of the 13 see: [[Alpha Trion (Prime)]]}}

==Fiction==
===''Robots in Disguise''===
Alpha Trion created [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Ultra Magnus (RID)|Ultra Magnus]] at the same time on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. {{storylink|Ultra Magnus: Forced Fusion!}}

==Notes==
*Alpha Trion is believed to be a character that was added to the dialog of ''[[Robots in Disguise (cartoon)|Robots in Disguise]]'' and is not present in the ''[[Robots in Disguise (cartoon)#Car Robots|Car Robots]]'' version of the show.{{fact|confirmation needed}}

[[Category:Elderly Transformers]]
[[Category:Robots in Disguise Autobots]]

Alpha Trion (RID)

2011-02-24T00:21:00Z

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{{factions|autobot}}
{{disambig3|Alpha Trion}}
:''Alpha Trion is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]] continuity family.''

{{faceless}}

'''Alpha Trion''' is an [[Autobot elder]].

{{note| In 2010 Hasbro introduced a [[retcon]] naming Alpha Trion as a member of the [[Thirteen original Transformers]], and thus a likely [[Multiversal singularity|multiversal singularity]] (meaning, basically, that all Alpha Trions in the [[multiverse]] would be the same individual). Due to the lengthy histories many of these incarnations had prior to the retcon we have opted to leave their pages as separate entities, and merely note the retcon on each individual page. For the Alpha Trion that is definitively one of the 13 see: [[Alpha Trion (Prime)]]}}

==Fiction==
===''Robots in Disguise''===
Alpha Trion created [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Ultra Magnus (RID)|Ultra Magnus]] at the same time on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. {{storylink|Ultra Magnus: Forced Fusion!}}

==Notes==
*Alpha Trion is believed to be a character that was added to the dialog of ''[[Robots in Disguise (cartoon)|Robots in Disguise]]'' and is not present in the ''[[Robots in Disguise (cartoon)#Car Robots|Car Robots]]'' version of the show.{{fact|confirmation needed}}

[[Category:Elderly Transformers]]
[[Category:Robots in Disguise Autobots]]

Romanization

2011-02-24T00:19:21Z

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{{Cleanup|October 2010|Too much of this article is currently a fork for "[[Engrish]]", instead of discussing the article's actual topic. The Engrish article has already been reworked to incorporate the relevant sections from this article. This article will be reworked in [[User:Nevermore/Sandbox/Romanization|my sandbox]].}}
[[Image:Romanization minelba.jpg|right|211px|thumb|Minerva; hypercorrecting "r" into "l", while somehow retaining the "b" from Japanese phonemes. Oh, Takara.]]
'''Romanization''' refers to the adaptation of languages or words that do not use Latin letters to the 26-character Latin [[alphabet]] used in English (among other, less important languages). Technically, the English-specific term would be "Anglicization".

The proper Romanization of Japanese character names can sometimes be unclear. This wiki notes such ambiguities if they are considered significant.

In fandom the term Romanization is frequently (and incorrectly) used to refer to Japanese misspelling of English words.

==Japanese and English==
Any writing system is (at best) an approximation of the sounds it represents. The Japanese writing system distinguishes between fewer [[Wikipedia:Phoneme|phonemes]] than most. This does not mean the language ''lacks'' those phonemes... English has more than 26 sounds, which is denoted by character-combinations ("ch" makes a sound that is not the combination of the mouth-movements for "c" and "h", but a close cousin), but even those combinations are imperfect; the double-o represents different sounds in "cook" and "spook".

Notably the Japanese script does not distinguish between the sounds "l" and "r", and English-speaking Japanese lack a mechanism for distinguishing the sounds in other languages. Foreign words in Japan frequently acquire ''creative'' spellings as a result of being rendered "down" into the Japanese script then re-Romanized; in such situations "[[Engrish]]" is a perfectly logical rendering. Accuracy is generally a low priority, as English characters are ''generally'' used to look cool, not make sense to Japanese children.

In fairness, we mangled the name of their entire country. [[Drift (G1)|And it's happened back-to-front in Transformers, now]].

{{see|Wikipedia:Romanization of Japanese}}

==Notorious and hilarious Romanizations in Transformers==
Romanization confusion can either be;

# Improper Japanese rendering of English names
# Words whose English spelling is open to interpretation.

* Minelba—Minerva
* Butt—[[Blot (G1)|Blot]]
* Clerken—[[Kraken]]
* "Comvoy", used on the packaging for ''[[Transformers: Mystery of Convoy]]''
* Variations of "[[Decepticon|Destron]]", including "Deathtron" and "Destoron"
* [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deszaras]]
* [[Rartorata]]
* [[Transformers Collection]] [[Kup (G1)|Chear]]
* A questionable case would be the various Japanese [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] toys named "Rijie" (''[[Robot Masters]]'', ''[[Alternators (toyline)|Binaltech]]'')—although the character's name was based on the original toy's vehicle mode, a Ligier racing car, Takara's insistence on using a Romanization of the name that's considerably different from the car manufacturer's name might hint at a willful decision.

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