Board Thread:Event Community Discussion/@comment-28069733-20170521154728/@comment-1637496-20170529064454

Ar-cen-ciel wrote: Kenji135 wrote: Is there a need to keep referring to Kaibokan as Coastal Defense Ship if we're settling on DE?

Practically every other ship class uses w/e that's on the card, or at least something close to it (e.g. Aircraft Cruiser -> Aviation Cruiser), so it's odd to have one that's translated  literally   for no apparent reason. Plus, I still think having an abbreviation of DE for Coastal Defense Ship is ridiculous given that DE isn't meant to abbreviate Coastal Defense Ship.

In the off chance that American DE got introduced with different kanji but the same classification, they could just share the same abbreviation and classification with a trivia explaining the different kanji term rather than classifying both of them as two different entities. This, of course, is under the assumption that future American DE would be considered equivalent to Kaiboukan in terms of game mechanic. Dude, if we do that we might as well go CDS or KB or whatever and restart this debate all over again. We had to use DE because we had to compromise with majority vote, while anyone with even a slightest knowledge about these ships would know that Kaibokans aren't the exact same thing as the American DEs. I would like to oppose the possibility of American DEs being lumped as Kaibokans, but I'll leave that debate for another time. I think he's just proposing to simply do the same thing that Fukui did in that report, using "Escort" instead of "Coastal Defence Ship". It's the same convention used on CombinedFleet.com and en.wikipedia for that matter. Personally I tend to prefer literal translations, but here the literal translation makes matters rather confusing, kaibokan were used as oceanic escorts but we call them coastal defence ships. I don't have a firm position on this matter anyway.