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[RoydGolden]

i legit don't remember if nasu enkidu is actually a person
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Well, if he's a Heroic Spirit he presumably has a soul so...

Also, don't discriminate against weapons. Not cool, bro. Shirou would not approve.

[canaki]

Enkidu may be a weapon but since they have a personality, I refer to them as they.
Unless Nasu tells us that Enkidu prefers to be referred to as a thing instead of a person, that is. I doubt we'd ever be told what pronouns Enkidu actually prefers.

[SpoonyViking]

For what it's worth, Faldeus refers to Enkidu as a person, but uses a gender-neutral pronoun in the English translation (does Japanese have gender-neutral pronouns?).

hm, i wonder if emiya archer was summoned as a saber instead, would his sword projections more more refined? in fact what would he loose and what would he gain?

Would he even qualify for any other Class?

[Mcjon01]

Some would argue that Japanese doesn't have pronouns at all.

[Rafflesiac]

Some would argue that Japanese doesn't have pronouns at all.

So ore, ware, watakushi, kimi, omae, temee and so on are verbal tics?

[RoydGolden]

Some would argue that Japanese doesn't have pronouns at all.

Japan even has gender-specific first person pronouns, right?

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Though, from my extremely limited knowledge of Japanese, pronouns might be a bit looser then English in some senses. For instance, "Boku" is a typically male first-person pronoun, but a girl (I think?) could still use it and it would just mean she was extremely tomboyish/impolite rather then outright transgender or anything.

So, there may not be "straight" male/female pronouns but there's definitely ones inordinately tied with one gender or another.

[Mcjon01]

So ore, ware, watakushi, kimi, omae, temee and so on are verbal tics?

Listen I don't know how linguistics works, I just read it in a book about how Japanese is a special snowflake language.

[zikari8]

hm, i wonder if emiya archer was summoned as a saber instead, would his sword projections more more refined? in fact what would he loose and what would he gain?

As strange as it is, I think Emiya can't actually be summoned as Saber...

Unless I'm wrong. I'm going off of Fate/Ace Royal for this.

[canaki]

僕っ娘 and 俺女 exist, everyone uses 私 for formal conversation, and this all gets even more wild when you consider dialects.

[RoydGolden]

As strange as it is, I think Emiya can't actually be summoned as Saber...

Unless I'm wrong. I'm going off of Fate/Ace Royal for this.

Not that strange when you consider that, while he can create swords with UBW, he doesn't have any unique sword associated with him in particular like Excalibur or Balmung. Whereas Gilgamesh on the other hand, probably could qualify as a Saber since he does have an original sword (Ea).

[Magikewl]

Ea is a staff

[RoydGolden]

Ea is a staff

It's many things.

[HHakyu]

Not that strange when you consider that, while he can create swords with UBW, he doesn't have any unique sword associated with him in particular like Excalibur or Balmung. Whereas Gilgamesh on the other hand, probably could qualify as a Saber since he does have an original sword (Ea).

Isn't Emiyas origin 'swords'? I kinda think that his origin makes him suitable, to be summoned as a Saber.

[zikari8]

Really, his most suitable class should be Caster since he's a mage before he is a swordsman/bowman.

[Rafflesiac]

I'm going off of Fate/Ace Royal for this.

That would be a terrible mistake.

Just consider him as Archer alone until DW decides they need more money.

[Asunder]

The excuse for why he can't be a Saber is stats, though considering sabers like Okita exist that could be easily retconed.

[Qinglong]

There's a post by You about merits of being a swordsman or something being the qualifier


whatever that means

[Neir]

Ea is a staff

Ea is a traffic cone

[Arashi_Leonhart]

Listen I don't know how linguistics works, I just read it in a book about how Japanese is a special snowflake language.

something something the same as nouns just serving the function of pronouns something something I got like a C+ in my linguistics class shit's confusing

[castor212]

So what ur saying is that u got an equivalent of more than A in linguistic right