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Talk:Lotus Eaters

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About the translated name, ロータスイーター達の酔醒 seems to imply something like "Lotus Eaters' 酔醒". 酔醒 apparently means to oscillate between drunk and sober, which I guess could be translated as just "intoxication" for simplicity. But it's not an adjective in this case, so instead of The "Intoxicated Lotus Eaters" it should be "The Lotus Eaters' Intoxication". --GenoCraft 13:25, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

Another dictionary suggests that it means both drunkness and sobriety in older texts.(Link) So sobriety by itself is probably still incorrect. How do we deal with this?

Maybe we could go with something like "Drunken Sobriety" for the moment? It's a pretty long title, but until someone comes up with a better idea, at least it expresses both meanings. Or maybe something like "Oscillating Drunkenness", "Alternating", "Fluctuating", something like that? I thought about incorporating the word "Trance" somehow, but couldn't think of anything. --GenoCraft 16:05, 26 September 2019 (UTC)