Post #1433811

Another big divide in character names: Betty's precious family horse is "1,000 Deaths" in TP, "Sazandis" in SS. This time, googling the SS name got me nothing useful. Search engines are convinced that I really meant to type Sarandis, Sandis, Satan, Gandhi (??), Sandi's, Cindy, or Zande. So it's not one of those mythological/historical references the SS translators found after the TP translators missed. ...I think this is the first divide where the SS translators are the ones who just fell back on the phonetic, "sazan-dis", while TP came up with a meaning, "Thousand-Deaths." (Ruthless Nights Scans went with "Southern Death." I'm genuinely surprised nobody here went with "Sudden Death.") Also, TP uses "she" for the horse, SS uses "he." Did one of them miss a gender indicator, or is this just a completely gender-ambiguous horse? There's a reference to the Thoroughbred foundation stallions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoroughbred#Foundation_stallions SS names the Godolphin Arabian, the Byerley Turk, and the Darley Arabian. TP names a trio of their descendants: Matchem, Herod, and Eclipse. Looks like "all modern thoroughbreds descend from these 3" is accurate for both groups, and Akino originally wrote the names of the younger generation, but SS decided to swap in the older one.