Forum:Jäger vs Yeager

This forum is too discuss the surname Jäger, Jeager or Yeager. The community of shall discuss and vote as to whether we should use Jäger or Yeager. These are the only two options available however if you wish to present a different idea fill free to do so.

Discussion
Guess I cannot vote... oh well... I already said everything I wanted to say about this on the Eren talkpage, but maybe I'll summarize it here at some later point. NeoSuperior (talk) 18:16, October 3, 2013 (UTC)


 * Huh? You can vote -- XGlass Reflection Talk


 * Yes, you are right, I guess I can vote :D I voted "Jäger", because that is the correct German spelling. "Jaeger" is not wrong though, it is just, let's say, "less prefered" in the German language, as you only write it like that in crossword puzzles or if you are typing on a keyboard without the letters "ä", "ö" and "ü". It is a bit unfair that the votes for Jäger and Jaeger are split up although it is practically the same, while Yeager can have all the votes for itself. Though variations that I have seen here, but are completely wrong are "Yaeger", "Yeagar", "Yaegar", "Jeager", "Jaegar" and "Jeagar". NeoSuperior (talk) 19:00, October 3, 2013 (UTC)

What about Jeager? In all honesty, I'd prefer it over Jäger. It is basically the same as ä can be written as ea. And Crunchy uses it afaik 18:31, October 3, 2013 (UTC)


 * Jeager isn't actually a word in German and would actually be Jaeger which is basically Jäger. But yeah, since Crunchyroll does use it and its an official source. I guess it has to be considered. -- XGlass Reflection Talk


 * Oh I typo'ed, it's indeed Jaeger. Sorry, I'll fix it~ 18:41, October 3, 2013 (UTC)
 * You know, Jaeger is also a surname in german, but I think we should go with the official spellings from Kodansha (even if I don't like Hange and such).  h fc 2 X  18:53, October 3, 2013 (UTC)
 * Well it's all or nothing, unless we want to vote for each character like this. 18:59, October 3, 2013 (UTC)
 * Kodansha are unreliable though, they use 3 different spellings for wall Rose thought volumes 1-5 (Rosa, Rose and Rosaline). Not to mention the translations have lower quality than that of scanlations. --  XGlass    ☣    Reflection
 * Son of a--- I honestly can't decide as I don't mind all spellings (Yeager, Jaeger, Jäger), especially since they all mean and are technically pronounced the same way ("jäger" being the original word of course). Guess I'll have to vote at some point though. That said, it does beg the question: are we going to operate like the One Piece wiki where we'll change the name based on what seems the most "accurate" unless Isayama confirms it? Or are we going by specific translations? (this goes for all characters) In that regard I do wanna ask, was "Yeager" truly and directly confirmed by Isayama himself or was that his editor? Also xGlass can we get a full list of Funimation's name translations? I'm curious with their choices in terms of the character names. --122.148.120.93 22:20, October 3, 2013 (UTC)