Thread:Gsimenas/@comment-34692810-20180214150322/@comment-27384850-20180214174505

1. Being "swayed by popular terms or what is needed for English translation terms" doesn't make them any less incorrect.

2. Just because a term can be shortened doesn't always mean it should be. Sometimes shortening terminologies is good, sure, but not always.

3. At least personally, I find a term like "Mountain Range at the Edge" a lot more ominous than "End Mountains." Given their relationship to the story and how the Human Empire residents are taught to think of them, I think the ominous version fits better if it's a bit clunkier.

4. I can think of two reasons off the top of my head for why YP's version(s) should not be considered official without question: First, when they directly contradict what the author himself has said (which happens somewhat often), second, when there are multiple versions of a single term (also all too common an occurrence). Why should we take their version of terms over the original author's, much less when they themselves can't manage to stay consistent or care enough to confirm with the original author?

5. Of course they do, but you also don't see terms in series like Harry Potter having several different names. For example, you never see "Magic Ministry" or "Phoenix's Order," it's always "Ministry of Magic" and "Order of the Phoenix." It's a bit difficult to trust that they care about terminologies such as this when they can't be bothered to keep them consistent, something that shouldn't be overly difficult (especially if they kept a glossary of terms).

At the end of the day, it's not about which came first but rather which puts more effort into the terminologies. The fan translations are far more consistent and will often take the author's romanizations into account whereas Yen Press seems to be inconsistent and will make up names despite the author noting what it should be in English. If the author says that YP's version is correct then that's that, but considering the number of discrepancies between their terms and his, it's hard to trust anything they come up with.