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dtewi said:

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I shall vent here..... Fabula Nova Crystallis is the stupidest name ever!

Why is it? It only means New Crystal Legend in latin o.O

No it doesn't. It means "A New Story With Crystals"

That name sucks.

Fabula is both Story and Legend in latin. So it can be both New Crystal Story or New Crystal Legend. 

Once more, why does it sucks? Every FF which has Crystal related theme has a similiar crystal cathphrase. 

Let me say again.

Fabula Nova Crystallis is literally translated as "A New Story With Crystals"

That name is bad.

You would never use that as a name.

Dude, you do not ever literally translate latin into a single phrase. Mainly because words like Fabula have more than one meaning.

That's a basic first day lesson in Latin class.

You translate it like that. Yet at the end of FFXIII, the description on the trophy that you recieve is New Crystal Legend.

Both are correct. 

If they wanted it to be New Crsytal Legend, it would have been Crystallus Novus Fabula.

Sure, you can make it sound like good English, but the point stans that Crystallis in latin means "by/with/ crystals" and no matter how loose you make your translation, it still stands that it generally means a story that has crystals in it.

Latin is extremely technical and you can't be that loose with translations. "Crystallis" still takes the ablative case even if nominative sounds better.

You're using the second declension alone to dictate what should be the ablative and what should be the nominative. Crystalli has also a case on the parasyllabic rule, in which case, the -Is termination would dictate it as the nominative.