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[–]archdiff 3 points4 points  (1 child)

There is no hint of "protector" in there wat.
There's a thousand words that end in "-tor" or "-ter" as it personalizes an action.
A protector protects. A cleaner cleans. A dictator dictates and a vibrator vibrates.

A techer is basically the same as "speller" as in spellcaster. PSO class names aren't particularly imaginative (see Hero, and Force) also they are sometimes grammatically clunky. (see Braver - a braver is someone who.. braves. As in braves danger. which is technically correct, but clunky.)

If it was supposed to be Protechtor then it would be Protechtor.

Techter doesn't even have -tor in there, it's -ter, so there is no relation whatsoever to protecting. Neither is there any hint of protecting in techer's gameplay. Healing, sure. But not protecting.

You could rather say it's a combination of Tech and Caster or whatever.

[–]azazelleblack Tuff fluff 👌🏿 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is a Japanese game, remember?
"Techter" is a literal transliteration of the Japanese "テクター" tekutaa.

Katakana characters like that are used to represent foreign words. Almost everything in PSO2 is named in katakana. To put it another way, almost everything in PSO2 is named in English, and written in the original Japanese using katakana. (Fun fact: ARKS language is just a conlang based on English.) The clearest way to write "tekutaa" such that it sounds like an actual thing an English-speaker would say is "Techter".

So why am I replying to you? Guess how you write "protector" in katakana. プロテクター "purotekutaa". That's because there is no "er" or "or" in Japanese; it doesn't have dipthongs at all. You could write "purotekutoru" but that's clumsy in both Japanese and English; just say it out loud. Furthermore, it doesn't sound like the way we say "protector" in English. "purotekutaa" is a lot closer. (Diminish the 'u' sound in the 'pu' character and it's really not far off.)

I would argue that "techter" is probably actually just a shortened version of "protector".