The plane of aether and wonders is now known as Avishkar, and we'd like to share why we made that change.
  • @[email protected]
    6•2 months ago

    It is cool to see them bringing in language experts to ensure the new name doesn’t also have any bad connotations, but I’m not sure if I would have preferred this instead of just putting an accent or stress mark to indicate the correct meaning.

    The in universe explanation of the name change is good though.

  • @Voyajer
    5•3 months ago

    So what does Avishkar mean?

    E: invention

    • @[email protected]
      -1•3 months ago

      You’d know that if you had read the article

      we selected Avishkar, from the Hindi word “aavishkar” meaning “invention.”

      • @Voyajer
        4•3 months ago

        I read the article last night and apparently missed it, probably because it would have made the most sense to put that in the first sentence of the article.

  • @[email protected]English
    5•2 months ago

    This all sounds reasonable to me. An understandable motivation for changing, and a sensible way of approaching it.

  • @[email protected]
    3•3 months ago

    Fair reason to do it, not against it since they didn’t do it retroactively or anything. Bit sad to see it go from something meaning tomorrow/art + home/country to just “invention” though. Lot of flavor lost there for people who know hindi.