(Jun. 13, 2016 4:27 AM)Kai-V Wrote: Considering that lanceur versus propulseur oddity, I am inclined to use whatever the show called things rather than what the instruction sheets say. People are more likely to have watched the anime than to have actively looked at those guides, in my opinion.
However, I just attempted to find some Bakuten Shoot Beyblade episodes in French on YouTube and it stops at twenty, in the first season...
Herein lies the problem. Most of the French dub has vanished into thin air quite a long time ago. The French instruction sheet is tucked away in some archival website, not to mention that the name of the parts weren't translated onto the Hasbro carry cases, as evidenced by the Driger MS case I still have.
Bl4ck-ou7 replied to me in PM, and his answer I think cemented the need for a French terminology. He also uses the terms
lanceur and
crémaillère, so I think we can wrap that one with a ribbon, but the main point is that for MFB (I asked about the series he was familiar with), he uses the official French terminology found in leaflets, on the back of the boxes and in the show, and so that's what he would use. The circumstances for HMS are different, because most of that is, like I said, gone.
One alternative might be to use the name for the Plastics parts from the anime, and put all official and unofficial equivalencies in a terminological/archival page.
(Jun. 13, 2016 6:06 PM)C a o S³ Wrote: In my opinion it's more suitable to use the original name for everyone instead of the dub name. This is meant to be used with everything: components and anime/manga characters.
I think that this is needed at least for the english version.
I understand your point, and I've argued for the use of the original terminology before, but on the matter of French, you'll find it has a weird relationship with Anglicisms and words borrowed straight from English. I'm speaking broadly, of course, but still, I fear the readership might find it a bit jarring to have so many English words thrown around, that is, if we do get readers.