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Andrew Cunningham
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The katakana for Michela's name are ミシェーラ so Chela is "Shell-a", not Kayla.
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SenpaiDuckie
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I believe the Kayla is for the Italian pronunciation of Chela, as said on the article. 
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Princess_Irene
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Thank you! That's interesting, and somehow even less intuitive. |
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Andrew Cunningham
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She's not Ytallian! She's from an old Yelgand family. |
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SenpaiDuckie
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Oh! I was referring to this on the article  :
Sorry if I mixed it up for you 
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Princess_Irene
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Regardless, the name "Michela" in English is usually pronounced "Mi-kayla;" which is Italian; "Mishella" isn't really a name we tend to see. (I've never seen it, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't exist  .) That's why I assumed the usual Italian pronunciation for the name and clarified that "Chela" wouldn't be "Chell-a" but "Kayla" given the full name.
So neither here nor there, really, but that's what, I think, both SenpaiDuckie and I were getting at! |
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Andrew Cunningham
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I definitely get where you're coming from, but as the current translator for the series, I felt it was better to have people pronouncing her name the way the author intended.
Honestly, I think without knowing the Italian name, a native English speaker would naturally assume it was a variant of Michelle, but I also always knew how it was meant to be read. |
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Princess_Irene
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Oh, I completely agree with you! I'd much rather be saying it the way the author intended; I was explaining how I got confused in the first place. I wasn't being sarcastic when I thanked you before. That's the kind of detail I love knowing from translators because it makes my own reading better.
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