Talk:Gara/@comment-2601:204:CA02:1FB0:81F3:92D3:4F59:E51F-20171008192306/@comment-25254386-20171008202522

That [https://www.reddit.com/r/Warframe/comments/743p59/the_name_of_the_glas_warframe_gara_actually_means/ post} was debunked by another user. Quote from FTC_Public on Reddit forums: "Not quite, OP. The "gara" in the link you posted is from 鶏がら (tori-gara). The chicken comes from 鶏 (niwatori) . The bones comes from the がら (gara) at the end, sometimes written as 殻. Here's where you're wrong: 殻 by itself is pronounced "kara" and means "shell" or "husk", as in "chicken husk" or "chicken carcass". It's only pronounced as "gara" here because if you say "niwatori-kawa" for a few hundred years eventually the "niwa" part drops (the Japanese like 4-syllible words) and the "ka" turns into a "ga" because it's easier to say.

It's still dumb to say that the name comes from ガラス (garasu) because ガラ (gara) means "gala", as in "the bronies all went to the gala", but "gara" doesn't mean "chicken bones". While a dictionary is good to have, when working with another language you need to understand why stuff is spoken a certain way. If you're just matching sounds "OP is wrong" might translate to "尾ペエ医すぅロング", which sounds right but really says "tailpa medical doctor long" and doesn't make any sense.

We could call the frame "Kara" instead after 殻 (kara), since she's got a glass shell. This would work and would sound a little more feminine, but she doesn't have a lick of Japanese styling in her so it doesn't make any sense to use a Japanese-based name to begin with. If DE really wanted the Japanese angle you could even keep the chicken joke: 唐揚げ (karaage) means fried chicken. It's a different "kara" but it sounds the same so the joke still works.

Source: a few semesters of college Japanese."