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@Quof said in Bookworm Part 5 Vol. 3 Discussion!:

@Axehand What's the relevance of Karstark? Are you maybe thinking of Rasantark? Rasantark and Rarstark are definitely similar names, though their names are equally similar in JP, so it didn't cross my mind too much. ラザンタルク + ラールタルク.

Looks like Quof considers them to be separate people.

I think perhaps you and @IppieLok are remembering the discussion around Lahrtaruc and Rarstark - which were, in fact, the same person.

@Quof said in Bookworm Part 5 Vol. 3 Discussion!:

@Flamesz-0 Rarstark. It's more similar to Lahrtaruc if you morph the spelling to how it looks in JP: Rarutaruku. The "s" is introduced in translation. The JP spelling is extraordinarily messy, as what happens when random words are mashed together. "Lahr" and "taruc" are names, so Rarutaruku looked like Lahrtaruc, but "rar" is "very" and "stark" is "strong" (to my knowledge), so it was actually probably Rarstark for "very strong." (Also, L/R are equivalent in JP, so yeah the first letter is always gambling.)

@DMC-Tornado Regarding unladylike
Hannelore: blinks It's not? But it's a time honored traditional method by which women in Dunkelfelger curb the most excessive of our men's rampages. It's even named after the first Dunkelfelger woman to employ it, the Girlshot.
Clarissa: nods proudly It's something that every wellborn lady of Dunkelfelger is trained in! And Queen Magdalena even did it to that traitor Raublut after Lady Rozemyne!
Justus: Well, aren't you glad she broke up with you, Lord Ferdinand?
Ferdinand: ...Quite.

Given all the gremlin references...

♫ Gimme gimme gimme a book after midnight! ♫

@DMC-Tornado
Florencia: ...Fair enough!

@JonaStubbe You raise some good points about changes to the Royal Academy. They would certainly target Archduke Candidates (Aubs are the ones who run the Zentquest) and they'd probably move the start of the AC to the first year so students can start prayer/rituals/mana compression. I'm on the fence about Ferdinand teaching it, since he's a busy guy. Eglantine would be a good choice if not made the Zent.

One thought is that the Academy doesn't have a headmaster, but instead a member of the Royal Family presides to resolve disputes. If that structure continues then it's a question of who becomes the next Zent- For instance If it's Werdekraf, then Lestilaut is Aub Dunkelfelger and Hannelore becomes the Dean. That dean could be in a position to teach first-years how to pray at the Temple and start building up blessings.

Another possibility is the addition of a fourth Archnoble Librarian who is in charge of the entire school and the AC.

@DMC-Tornado said in Dumb Things That Will Never Happen:

Rozemyne: Hey bro? Can you get me some of that layknight's blood? Ferdinand says I need to drink it.

I read that as 'ladyknight' and spent a good three minutes trying to figure out which one you were referencing. 🤣

@clear_aria the Matthias reveal is just a few pages after the concept of nameswearing is introduced in the story

Damn, rereading P5V8 I finally understood the etymology of Vollkowesen: vollkommen (perfect) + Wesen (being)

Pretty obvious in retrospect, but I might have been distracted by the fact that 'o' at the end of a syllable (in 'ko') is pronounced /o/ instead of /ɔ/ as it is pronounced in both places in vollkommen, so my mind immediately went to Vollkasko (which a type of car insurance policy and thus has nothing to do with the spell) whose 'ko' is pronounced /ko/. I had also considered whether the double l might be a mistake and Volk (people, the countable version, as in 'the people', not 'a group of people'), but then the 'o' was unexplained.

But vollkommen + Wesen makes perfect sense \o/

@Yessie

To sum it up

Diagnosis should be remove from the whole book.

Do not diagnos a persons this close to a truma.

In trauma litteratur avoiding behavior is used and not phobia or fear.

This is not phobia

I’m not saying that you’re wrong, but in my opinion most of the suggestions that you are making are going beyond translation and into rewriting the original text. I don’t think that J-Novel can (or should) change what the author wrote like that, even if the author made factual errors.

@15Redstones said in Bookworm Part 5 Vol. 10 Discussion!:

@Libri-Liberorum right, southern hemisphere would end daylight savings time now.
With JNC in the US starting DST several weeks ago does that mean you have a two hour difference between winter and summer Bookworm time?

Yes.

@AliceCheshire even if the decree was to marry Detlinde, that's clearly not an option any more, so it's not hard to argue that marrying the new aub is in line with what Gieselfried would have wanted.

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