Forum:Renaming Devil Fruit Pages

Alright, I know this subject is probably going to be heavily debated, but I want to get this out there: I believe that we should rename the Devil Fruit pages. More specifically, I think we should translate "no Mi" into "Fruit". Recently, it has started to bother me that we choose to leave that part untranslated in the names, but everywhere else we simply call them what they are: fruits. We have a Devil Fruit page that talks about different types of fruits, but for some reason all the fruit names have that "no Mi" instead of the simple translation.

"Well, we might as well call Gomu Gomu no Mi the Rubber Rubber Fruit then!" Well, no. The first part of the Devil Fruit names is usually something that's impossible to translate properly: Onomatopoeias, shortened words etc. They're written katakana, which unlike Kanji, has no meaning. It's simply a syllabary that's used for "names of plants, animals, minerals, and often Japanese companies", for example. The two syllable naming theme would also be lost in translation. The fruit part is clear, though: It's written with Kanji and has a clear translation. I really see no reason for us not to translate it.

Now, I know some of you are going to be against this due to the "half-translation" aspect. But I'd like to point out that we already use half-translations for quite a number of pages. For example, islands.

Kyuka Island, Yukiryu Island, Nanimonai Island, Kenzan Island, Karakuri Island

The first part means something in Japanese in all of them, but we leave it untranslated. Yet "shima/-tō" is translated into "Island". You could argue that the first part is the name of the island, while island is just what it is, but one can make the exact same argument for Devil Fruits. 21:42, December 8, 2014 (UTC)