(Feb. 14, 2012 12:45 AM)Shabalabadoo Wrote: (Feb. 13, 2012 10:17 PM)Hazel Wrote: Because it sounds idiotic and "Left" sounds fine and is much more clear.
Because there is an "L" written on the casing and "Leverse" is not a word.
Because no one ever bothered to correct them.
etcetera
Hazel, I'm just not understanding.
First reason is just silly, second is just [edit: purposely] making the same mistake, and third is just being a lazy butt.
There's also the likelihood people just didn't want to break tradition and start using a stupid word instead of the word that directly indicates what it does, which also happened to be the word that was always used for Left SGs. It could become confusing to suddenly switch terminology, even back in 2003 - doing it now would be downright silly.
"NEO Left" sounds better than "NEO Reverse". Abbreviations are also a factor, as I mentioned above. Two words starting with R instead of just R and L? Nonsense.
This would've been an appropriate conversation to have a decade ago, but even then, I do not think I would ever resign to calling it "NEO Reverse".