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Desassina
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by Desassina » Fri Sep 14, 2018 5:32 pm
MyVisionity wrote:Saiyan from Saiya-jin is no different than American adding an N (from man/woman?) to America (an even I know that they're from the United States).
Except unlike America, "Saiya" does not refer to a place. Adding an N doesn't really add up the same way it would for "Namekian" or "American" etc.
So what would make someone adapt Saiya-jin as "Saiyan"?
Whether the N is added to a place or a race, it's still an N trying to depict something belonging to the latter, and I gave you an example of it. It's not just the N, but -ian as well, or any other suffix with that intent. Namek is a planet like Mars is another with Namekians and Martians belonging to them. There's African ethnicity, American residency, Saiyan descendancy... You name it. I was merely trying to connect.
