Talk:Artoria Pendragon/@comment-31813256-20170920045457/@comment-2600:8805:502:600:C12D:DFE4:E765:E4CC-20170922162700

" Artoria (the fan naming)" Fan nothing. He clearly took the name Arthur, made it female by taking Artorius (the assumed source name of Arthur), and feminized it by removing the 's' and changing the 'u' to an 'a'. It's extremely obvious this was the intent. It's not like it's the first time where the creator of a work makes it extremely clear to English speakers what the intent is, while failing to go with it when actually choosing to show it written in English (cough cough Arystar Krory in D.Gray-man cough).

People like to say it's word of god, "the creator put it as that so that's what it is", but that implies the creator is fully aware of the practically identical sounding but more practical English spelling of these and chooses not to use them and gives no reason for it, even though it's much more likely that the creator is okay or even great with spoken English, but not so much at written, and just hasn't been corrected on it or doesn't care or find it to be a big enough deal to fix.

I think the only reason this happened for Artoria is because he had to change the name to be female, where as every other name is just their actual name and can easily be copied. It's not like we'd get her named something like Ahsah if they chose to keep her named Arthur, since we don't get super Engrish forms of every other Servant (though I think deformed Engrish names are perfect for the April Fools versions of them lol).