Dragon Ball Z VizBig Volume 8

[Ashy-kun]

Well, this is why I spell it Cacarrotto, to make a good compromise. After all, if "Carrot" already has the added "Ca"/"Ka", then adding "To" can't harm the pun. Otherwise the spelling of "Vegetto" would come out as "Vegett", roughly.

[jjgp1112]

Granted.

I`m simply saying that its not "wrong". Its more of a perfectible acceptable liberty in the translation.

Like I said, only from a point a view of a conservatory translation (one that keeps the honorifics and such and is very literal) could we regard it as incorrect.

No. It is very much wrong. It's his name. You're basically arguing that you could take my name, replace a syllable, and call it "an acceptable liberty." No. It's no longer my name. It might be a perfectly good name, but it's not mine.

You might even be able to argue that Vegit would be an acceptable liberty of transliteration between languages or of keeping the consistency of chopped off o of Kakarrotto, but replacing the last syllable isn't even close.

That's a bit of a strawman. I mean, I'm assuming that you're not a person in a foreign work of fiction being adapted to English that was the result of two people combining bodies and you decided to make your name a combination of the two original people, right?

In the context of Viz's translation, where Kakarotto is called Kakarot instead, Vegerot makes perfectly logical sense. His name follows the exact same principals as it does in the Japanese version, except he's called a different name because it wouldn't make sense for the character to get Vegetto out of Vegeta and Kakarot. "Let's see, I'm a combination of Vegeta and Kakarot! I know, I'll just end Vegeta's name with an 'o" instead to combine their names!" I think Funimation should've changed his name as well, or at least changed Vegetto's reasoning for coming up with the name.

[Big Momma]

I wonder if we'll get "Vegerot" in the Kai dub

[Gaffer Tape]

In the context of Viz's translation, where Kakarotto is called Kakarot instead, Vegerot makes perfectly logical sense. His name follows the exact same principals as it does in the Japanese version, except he's called a different name because it wouldn't make sense for the character to get Vegetto out of Vegeta and Kakarot. "Let's see, I'm a combination of Vegeta and Kakarot! I know, I'll just end Vegeta's name with an 'o" instead to combine their names!" I think Funimation should've changed his name as well, or at least changed Vegetto's reasoning for coming up with the name.

Well, no, they should have just done their research and realized that chopping off the last syllable of Goku's birth name would bite them in the asses later on and plan accordingly. But perpetuating bad decisions by making further bad decisions does not a good decision make.

And my example stands because the name Vegerot has nothing to do with any kind of translation or romanization standards. It was just VIZ attempting to cover up an earlier bad choice.

[Big Momma]

In the context of Viz's translation, where Kakarotto is called Kakarot instead, Vegerot makes perfectly logical sense. His name follows the exact same principals as it does in the Japanese version, except he's called a different name because it wouldn't make sense for the character to get Vegetto out of Vegeta and Kakarot. "Let's see, I'm a combination of Vegeta and Kakarot! I know, I'll just end Vegeta's name with an 'o" instead to combine their names!" I think Funimation should've changed his name as well, or at least changed Vegetto's reasoning for coming up with the name.

Well, no, they should have just done their research and realized that chopping off the last syllable of Goku's birth name would bite them in the asses later on and plan accordingly. But perpetuating bad decisions by making further bad decisions does not a good decision make.

And my example stands because the name Vegerot has nothing to do with any kind of translation or romanization standards. It was just VIZ attempting to cover up an earlier bad choice.

Except...it's not really a bad choice. "Kakarot" fits the pun a little bit better than "Kakarotto" in English. Because we call them "Carrots", not "Carrotos".

[Gaffer Tape]

It's a bad choice because of Vegetto. Besides, the pun is still there. It doesn't have to be the word itself.

[Ashy-kun]

Gaffer Tape is right. After all, as I did mention in my post just earlier today, Toriyama added an extra "Ca" / "Ka" to "Carrot", and the "tto" bit is very clear, too, with the kana. So what harm is there in adding "to" to "Cacarrot(t)" / "Kakarot"?

I mean, personally, I translated it as just "Cacarrott" myself, until I realised that I'd have to spell "Vegetto" as "Vegett" by that logic. And while that works, somewhat, people would find this still something akin to "Vegerot", which is still valid. After all, "Kakarot" is still something of a valid translation for the name. I wouldn't say that this was a bad choice. Just one that could have been thought about with some foresight, that's all.

[Gaffer Tape]

Yeah, I don't consider dropping the o to necessarily be a wrong way to translate that name. But there's absolutely no way to take the name Vegetto on its own merit and "translate" it to "Vegerot." You might call it a successful "adaptation" or "change" in the face of how they adapted Kakarrotto, but to say that it counts as a "translation" is somewhat ludicrous.

[Raven]

When I was younger I just assumed the 'o' in Vegetto simply came from the 'o' in Goku!
I always thought it was a weird choice for his name , but if they still called him Vegetto I'm sure others would think the same thing.
It's a real shame, the name Vegerot keeps reminding me of some weird pirate or something It just doesn't sound right

[Gaffer Tape]

Really? Makes me think of decomposing vegetables...