Talk:Dwarves

"Midgets"
Should we really call them "midgets"? That seems... well, offensive, even though we're talking about a fictional species.

--Cyberweasel89 14:43, April 8, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thats what the translation said... Did Stephen cover that issue? Are they referring to the same race? One-Winged Hawk 16:28, April 8, 2010 (UTC)

Those are tails not abdomens

Strength
"...dwarves possess great strength, with a single dwarf being able to easily destroy a building." - I don't remember this part, any source?

A building is indeed shown getting destroyed one page 13 (counting the double-spread as two pages) of Chapter 711. MasterDeva (talk) 14:26, June 20, 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, I didn't notice the building.

"Bianne"
In Chapter 717 a dwarf with the name "Bianne" was mentioned. Should it get its own page or should we wait until it makes an appearance? 00:01, August 12, 2013 (UTC)

Link it, and if so, yes. 00:04, August 12, 2013 (UTC)

It's mangastream, I don't know if it's properly translated. 00:10, August 12, 2013 (UTC)

Mangarule also used that, so yeah, make the page. 00:14, August 12, 2013 (UTC)

You couldn't have just waited a few days and given the article a better start? There's a reason we didn't make it already. 01:12, August 12, 2013 (UTC)

Spelling
Dwarf, in plural, is spelt as "Dwarfs", not "Dwarves". Of course, this could be the US/British difference, but we do use US. So I propose a change. I don't know if there is another reason to use "Dwarves" instead, so this is why I asked first. 03:56, February 22, 2014 (UTC)

It's not a US/British difference. I took a quick look around, and the consensus seems to be that originally Dwarfs was used, but Dwarves was the spelling popularized by Tolkien, and since then both are used about the same. This site (top google hit for "Dwarfs Dwarves") suggests that Dwarves is preferable when they are being used in a fantasy setting (i.e. here), but more research would be required. 04:05, February 22, 2014 (UTC)

Ah... Okay. It's just seeing "Dwarves" is underlined as a spelling error on my spell-check system, so I thought... 05:22, February 22, 2014 (UTC)

When we first learned about Dwarves, it was from the slave trading list Duval gave to Sanji back at the Slave Auction House. Do any of the English adaptations (Manga or Anime) try to translate that list? Or what spelling has Viz used in recent chapters? This doesn't really seem like a translation issue, more just an issue specific to English, so I think we can be fine with using whatever the official translations use just to be consistent. Plus something that's actually edited is more likely to be correct than our assumption from a long time ago. 05:28, February 22, 2014 (UTC)

The way I learned it, dwarves is lots of small people, dwarfs is to make something small by comparison. So, for example, DP's edit count dwarfs mine. Dwarves is the more popular version, so I don't see any pressing need to change. 11:00, February 22, 2014 (UTC)