No one knows what Dia really means but me

[BRP]

With this knowledge I can crush kingdoms.

[BRP]

Its the Final Fantasy spell

[BRP]

It actually stands for two words. (Would that be called an acronym?)

[Ohaigaiz]

i thought 2 words was a compound word

[BRP]

What? bat?

The first two letters of the first word is D and I and the first of the second word is A. Though it is messed up by Japanese, so its basically impossible to guess. FFXIclopedia points on the latin meaning of "dia", but that came later. Which is why it was called harm in FF1.

[BRP]

Oh, that's what you meant. Nope, kind of explained it though.

Ready shit bricks? It stands for...

Spoiler: show

Don't feel like telling... sorry

[BRP]

Spoiler: show

Other changes come from the progression of the game system. Originally we were given strict length restrictions, so the spell names in FF1 were four or five letters long. Later we were able to spell "Thunder" or "Lightning" instead of LIT1. From FFVIII onwards, we changed the spell naming convention to match the made-up Japanese spell names, with -ra and -ga endings, etc. We thought it improved the game's own original world-feel. For FFXI, we had to further adjust both the Japanese and English spell naming system so that both languages could use the same words. I spent weeks making different versions of the names with the director, Ishii-san, until we found a happy medium for both languages. During those discussions, I also found out we had translated the spell name DIA in Japanese (HARM in the original English FF1) wrong. DIA actually was an abbreviation of "Dispel Undead" (the "u" in "undead" is written as "a" in Japanese). "Diu" or "Diun" didn't work well in English, but seeing as "DIA" connotates "daylight" in Latin-based languages and undead are usually harmed by sunlight, I decided to use "Dia" in FFXI, and had the translators fix it in the remake of FF1 onwards as well.

No one knows this but you and me.

[Kuya]

Dia is Day's sexy sexy sister.

[Day]

Man these are some great threads u be makin berp

[Qalbert]

Dickin' around

[Meian]

lol your definition is on ffxi wiki now XD

[Meian]

I mostly used the Greek one regarding "pass through or join" for this character I made up in a story since it is an ethereal begin that possessed people, and it's name was related to the main char "Di" which he does possess. Works well in that regard =)

[Meian]

man.... fuck you man..

I didn't put it up I just noticed it when I went to check what the other defintions were again =x

[Charismatic]

It was me, I can't keep a secret.

[tyven]

wait dia harms the undead?

[Conrad]

it harms everyone

[Conrad]

I had diuga once, but then I ate some raisin bran and I was fine

[BRP]

I was going to tell FFXIclopedia, but I am too lazy to remember my password for that site

[Colenzo]

its already on there BRP

[BRP]

its already on there BRP

No its not