Mayhap

January 7, 2009, 9:54 PM

So just curious to know why they used "Mayhap" in Final Fantasy Tactics for the PSP.. was it a miss translation or was it actually what somebody says? I've never heard somebody say "Mayhap" in a sentence until i played this game.

January 7, 2009, 9:55 PM

Probaly some ye olde English bollocks

SHIT I thought this was in spam.....

Adv.1.mayhap - by chance; "perhaps she will call tomorrow"; "we may possibly run into them at the concert"; "it may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time"maybe, peradventure, perhaps, possibly, perchance

January 7, 2009, 9:58 PM

As it would happen, I thought that this thread was directed at me (or, rather, my username). In Starcraft, during the Zerg campaign, a character named Tassadar is challenged to a battle by Kerrigan, to which he replies "Mayhap, O Queen, or is it only that I need not flaunt my power in such an infantile test of will?"

He frequently used old English phrases, so I'm guessing it derives from there as a combination of "maybe" and "perhaps".

January 10, 2009, 1:15 PM

It's old English like everyone else has said. FF Tactics uses a lot of language like this to fit with the era, theme and story of the game.

And I agree with Kerrigan, it is possible that it is a merging of "maybe" and "perhaps", and the meaning is the same.

January 12, 2009, 3:55 AM

Yes now that you say this when i read the sentence when they say "Mayhap" i fill in those 2 words and it make sense. I figured it was those from the start but i wasn't sure if it was just a mistranslation but i guess not.