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jjinpang · 9 months ago

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Is it okay if I ask why you add an "S" to Zack's name? Is it a nickname of sorts that you came up with? I'm sorry if this is rude to ask.

not at all rude!

short answer: habit!

long answer:

In japanese his name is 「ザックス」 romanized it'd be "zakkusu" with a distinct S/X sound at the end. For a pretty long time it was officially spelled "Zax". This is a super duper personal preference thing but I didn't like the spelling even at the time and spelled it "Zacks" instead.

Later Zacks' localized name became "Zack" losing the S/X sound. I felt this made his name a completely different name altogether and stubbornly decided to keep calling him Zacks. (been spelling it wrong long enough anyway lol) In Japanese his name has not changed at all and is still 「ザックス」 with the S/X sound at the end.

It's something I'm doing by myself and I totally get it if it seems weird.

#EITHER WAY I am spelling it wrong lol #I don't think it helped that I had like 4 different people named zack in my class once #like zack h; zack g; zack m; and zack p; it only worked because zachary m went by zachary #got pretty far without anyone asking lolol #よくも今までツッコまれずにきたと思うwwwwww #tbh I didn't have much reason to interact with the English spelling till I started uploading ff7 stuff here #his name is also still 잭스 in Korean #which would preserve the s/x sound #zacks fair #zack fair #asks

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