Board Thread:Event Community Discussion/@comment-28069733-20170521154728/@comment-17703786-20170528100709

I think that the supposed need for a wall of text in the trivia section to explain to readers that "DE" =/= Escort is exactly the reason why we need to get it right the first time, instead of just going for popular opinion. In fact, this is one of those times where going with history through historical documents will hurt our presentation more than not, since it then becomes necessary to explain just what the relationship between the Kaiboukan and the "DE" nomenclature is. And if an actual Destroyer Escort comes along in the future, the we'll have to do this all over again. If you need to add a disclaimer that "Escorts" are not quite "DE", then something is quite wrong imho.

It's not like the English Kancolle community hasn't made up designations for ship classes before like "FBB", "BBV", "CAV", etc.