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:I've noticed about this. But, since I don't know how to romanize "スキュウレ", I never mention about moving the page. Anyway, her name definitely not "Scylla" in English. ;D ----[[User:TX55|TX55]] 15:34, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
:I've noticed about this. But, since I don't know how to romanize "スキュウレ", I never mention about moving the page. Anyway, her name definitely not "Scylla" in English. ;D ----[[User:TX55|TX55]] 15:34, 29 January 2008 (UTC)


::For what it's worth, [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.toys.transformers.moderated/browse_frm/thread/5c8ec287ca485072/d4df02bd06303430?lnk=st&q=#d4df02bd06303430 here's the original a.t.t. discussion].  Note Sipher's comments about "CentaurMan" for comparison.  I believe "Scylla", or at worst, "Scylle" may be the best romanization we can get.--[[User:Apcog|Apcog]] 15:49, 29 January 2008 (UTC)<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>
::For what it's worth, [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.toys.transformers.moderated/browse_frm/thread/5c8ec287ca485072/d4df02bd06303430?lnk=st&q=#d4df02bd06303430 here's the original a.t.t. discussion].  Note Sipher's comments about "CentaurMan" for comparison.  I believe "Scylla", or at worst, "Scylle" may be the best romanization we can get.--[[User:Apcog|Apcog]] 15:49, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 
:::"Scylle" seems nice, maybe we could move the page. ;) --[[User:TX55|TX55]] 17:20, 29 January 2008 (UTC)<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>

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... well that's unexpected. Unless Dr. Sigma's Japanese Bio & Tech Spec Archive entry on God Neptune[1] has a typo... Scylla's name isn't the same as the monster of Greek mythology. Her name is written as スキュウレ - su-kyu-u-re. The Greek monster's name[2] is written スキュラ - su-kyu-ra. Additionally, there's only slightly less than 300 hits for su-kyu-u-re on Google[3], which all seem to be related to the BWII character - whereas there are 71,500 hits[4] for su-kyu-ra. I guess her name was always MEANT to be a Rhinoxization of Scylla, but, uh, nobody noticed?

I don't know what a more accurate transliteration of her name's katakana would be. Greek to Japanese to English is giving me a headache. We should probably have some kind of note about this, though. --Monzo 11:52, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

I've noticed about this. But, since I don't know how to romanize "スキュウレ", I never mention about moving the page. Anyway, her name definitely not "Scylla" in English. ;D ----TX55 15:34, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
For what it's worth, here's the original a.t.t. discussion. Note Sipher's comments about "CentaurMan" for comparison. I believe "Scylla", or at worst, "Scylle" may be the best romanization we can get.--Apcog 15:49, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
"Scylle" seems nice, maybe we could move the page. ;) --TX55 17:20, 29 January 2008 (UTC)