Thread:Sophie Floyd/@comment-937287-20140210121735

I see that you have recently edited the Al-Thamen trivia section. While I accept most of your changes, you have simply made a mistake in one part. I originally wrote The name of this organization is a corruption of the Arabic word  الثامِن Ath -Thāmin  ( or without elision: Al-Thāmin ), meaning  " The Eighth " ,  which you changed to  The name of this organization is a corruption of the Arabic word  Al -Thāmin ( الثامِن ), meaning  The Eighth <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11.818181991577148px;background-color:rgb(204,255,204);">, . What you changed it to is, in a proper sense, incorrect. In Arabic, the elision is mandatory in proper speech, so I must transliterate it as proper and as standard Arabic-to-English transliteration protocol dictates. الثامِن is properly pronounced and transliterated/romantized as " Ath-Thāmin". However, the reason I must mention the elision and underlying form ( Al-Thāmin)  is twofold: 1) The underlying (as well as written) form of the word is " Al-Thāmin" ( ال  Al "the" +  ثامن  Thāmin "eighth"), but although it is physically written as the combination of those two elements and looks like " Al-Thāmin" on paper, it is pronounced as " Ath-Thāmin" due to phonological reasons (Look up "sun and moon letters" if you feel like it). Of course any Arab would understand what is meant if someone said " Al-Thāmin" as opposed to " Ath-Thāmin", but it would sound like uneducated speech  Which ties in to my next point 2) The mangaka obviously didn't realize that she should have made this elision, so she erroneously used "Al-" rather than "Ath-" as she should have. Becuase she is using " Al-Thāmin" as the basis, just writing " Ath-Thāmin" would confuse readers wondering where the "L" in the Japanese name came from. So we have to include both names.

tl;dr: I am doing to revert the highlighted green part above back to the yellow highlighted version. I only wrote all the above just to make sure that you don't revert my revert. I am also going to check if any other trivia was, in a proper sense, messed up a bit. Thanks for reading and glad to see you are helping around with the wiki.<ac_metadata title="Al-Thamen Trivia"> </ac_metadata>