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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

It's not even JUST that though. One, Guridon is supposed to be a dumb name. Ornac is basically a 1:1 translation.

See, this is why I personally take offense to the Ornac translation. "Let's just take two letters from the beginning of the word and put them at the end!" is the sort of stupid overly literal translation you'd expect Magenta to write snarky comments about in a blog post. Guridon as a corruption of Donguri works even outside of the context of the show because the Japanese language has consistent pronunciations and donguri is a distinct enough word. On the other hand, literally nobody is going to look at the word "Ornac" and pronounce it in a way that makes them go "yep, that's an acorn thing," because it's too close to sounding like a normal made-up word. It's a dumb pun in the original Japanese, but Magenta's take on it barely qualifies as one.

If anything, I think they should have committed to it and named him "Corn-ay" or something. Really get the stupid across.

But that's just my ranty opinion.