Talk:Character Voice/@comment-5051846-20140324194802/@comment-81.156.135.170-20140324205921

I used the basis of if specifically the text "CV:XXX" appears, its a sign to add it, for now.

It had to appear on the officially website, yamaha shop, or the sieyu must have mentioned doing a Character voice for Vocaloid. I'm not so confident on the 3 hidden ones anymore, due to the fact yesturday there was a lot of criticism, because it was not blundtly written as "CV:Piko" anywhere on those sources.

Today witha  clearer head and less hassle, now the page is sourced and the critics have been quietened for a moment, I can finially think about how to approach the page. So I made up those rules for mentioning.

On  "character voice", its typically a Japanese usage with only one meaning. But I guess this is kinda the problem when it is read by a native english speaker. This is also why I had to clench my teeth yesturday and bare with it, I tried to avoid arguing about what CV means because... Well... It really means only 1 thing to the Japanese. We don't use this term.

To a English speaker we woyuld more likely say;


 * ".... In the role of..."


 * ".... Character, as played by...".

Or somehting like this.

We would not say;:-/


 * IA, CV:Lia

Basically, "Character Voice" is a loanword like phrase, which is where one langauge uses the words of another but the meaning of that langauges usage is different to the original. "Sombrero", is the best example I can think of where English is using it for a meaning diferent to the origin in Spanish.