Talk:Zaur (G1)
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Is there anything that states "Zaur" is more official than "Saur"? Interrobang 17:26, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
- Aren't the phonetics for Z and S different? That's what I'd assume. --ItsWalky 18:18, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
- Ah. I see where I went wrong. I thought the Japanese pronounced "saurus" as "zaurusu", thanks to Deathsaurus#Trivia. Turns out I was incorrect. Interrobang 18:43, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
- No, you are/were correct. "Tyrannosaurus" is pronounced "Ti-ra-no-za-u-ru-su", for instance. What made you think you were wrong?--Apcog 21:17, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
- Really? Japanese Wikipedia gives the Katakana as ティラノサウルス・レックス, which is why I thought I was incorrect. I assume there's variation in transliteration? Interrobang 22:00, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
- I looked up ザウルス on the Japanese Wikipedia, and according to the first line of text, サウルス is now currently used almost exclusively. Apparently, it's simply been replaced as the accepted transliteration of the Latin suffix. I have no idea when this transition occurred. If you look up various -saurus dinosaurs in kana, サウルス definitely holds the majority, although the results for the two variants on "stegosaurus" are more evenly split, indicating there's still plenty of examples of the old version still persisting.--Apcog 23:38, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
- Really? Japanese Wikipedia gives the Katakana as ティラノサウルス・レックス, which is why I thought I was incorrect. I assume there's variation in transliteration? Interrobang 22:00, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
- No, you are/were correct. "Tyrannosaurus" is pronounced "Ti-ra-no-za-u-ru-su", for instance. What made you think you were wrong?--Apcog 21:17, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
- Ah. I see where I went wrong. I thought the Japanese pronounced "saurus" as "zaurusu", thanks to Deathsaurus#Trivia. Turns out I was incorrect. Interrobang 18:43, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
