Talk:Enryu/@comment-28805348-20160705184138/@comment-26484417-20160714174555

@Rachellover: But this isn't well defined in the story, only one half of the contrast is well defined while the other one has barely any coverage. We have a word that--from the linguistic perspective--puts stronger emphasis on the meaning than the other word commonly used in the story. Now, you cannot go past this point without making an assumption one way or the other: Yours is that the linguistic perspective can be ignored, while mine is the exact opposite. Maybe you're right and the emphasis is accidental and / or inconsequential, but maybe I'm right and SIU placed it there so that we--the readers--don't mistake it for "mere nickname". The only way to find out is to make sure how SIU uses this word beyond this article.

Still, the original issue wasn't really the distinction between the two words, it was whether Enryu killed the Guardian before or after becoming a Ranker. My reasoning why it should have happened before is based on the implied timeline of the events. However, I cannot confirm this part in the original blog post, because--unlike with the Korean vocabulary--I lack the skill and resources to do proper analysis of Korean grammar. Regardless, if this implied timeline holds, then the additional assumptions (e.g., "the disappearance would make more sense", etc.) should be considered as secondary.

What are you referring to in your second paragraph? Neither of us is arguing that an official term is actually not an official term.