Talk:K'

"The" in running text
Since I'm copy-editing this article, before anyone asks: When you have a title like The King of Fighters and you need to put it into a sentence where English grammar requires the noun to take the definite article "the", the correct thing to do is omit the "The" from the title:
 * …from the King of Fighters series…
 * …from The King of Fighters series…
 * …from the The King of Fighters series…

See, e.g., the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition, paragraph 8.167 (p. 452). That's under the "Books and Periodicals" section, but the same rule applies to the titles of other works. // ⌘macwhiz (talk) 02:01, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

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Uncertain about overview sentence, intent to rewrite
In the overview there is a sentence reading "While K''s gameplay has been altered across the franchise in order to be more stylish, his physical appearance has been different." I'm not sure what the second part of the sentence "his physical appearance has been different" is trying to say. Is it trying to say that unlike his gameplay, his appearance hasn't changed? That would seem to be the most likely meaning implied. I was going to fix this myself, but I thought I'd check if I had the correct interpretation first. Jaguar83 (talk) 04:54, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

No problem. Be bold Tintor2 (talk) 05:09, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Article title
I'm puzzled by the article's title. It's K' (K + apostrophe), but the first sentence instead starts by defining the subject as K Dash, and only then adding it's commonly stylised as K′ (K + prime). Going off just this sentence, I'd expect the title to be K Dash, but then the rest of the article refers to the subject as K', so I guess that makes sense. But then, why is this an apostrophe? If the character is indeed alternatively known as K Prime, then that must then be the actual prime symbol rather than an apostrophe.

Normally, to answer such a question I'd go to the sources and look at what the more reliable of them do. But as far as I can see, almost all of the sources are web pages, and even then not of the type that you would expect to feature old-fashioned, meticulous typography.

Also, isn't it a it awkward to refer to the subject as K in running text, especially in combination with the possessive s (in the article there are 14 instances of the string K''s)? – Uanfala (talk) 22:17, 5 December 2020 (UTC)


 * According to the official website, the character's name is K'. However, "K Dash" seems to be the pronounciation which is only mentioned in the Maximum Impact games as there is no voice acting. The announcer and Kula Diamond specifically pronounce it as "K Dash" but for some reason the title is K' in written form. About "K Prime" that's actually I never heard.Tintor2 (talk) 23:25, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
 * The prime symbol is known as "dash" (ダッシュ dasshu) in Japanese. Nardog (talk) 14:16, 30 December 2023 (UTC)