meronpan vs melonpan

Why is melonpan aliased to meronpan? It should be the other way around, since メロン is just "melon" written in katakana.

It's either meronpan or it's melon_bread. It's either Japanese or English.

"meron" is not japanese, its Engrish.

"Meronpan" is a loanword.

We don't write "sailor fuku", do we?

Voting for meronpan and melonpan -> melon_bread.

Soljashy said:
"Meronpan" is a loanword.

We don't write "sailor fuku", do we?

Well... We do, but a serafuku is not quite a sailor_uniform (in the sense that it's not what a sailor would wear--think Donald Duck), nor are all school_uniforms serafuku, so even though it's based on a loan term it's also a unique term that doesn't have a fitting equivalent in English (as far as I know).

This on the other hand does, in melon_bread, so I am also in favor of aliasing to that.

スラッシュ said:
This on the other hand does, in melon_bread, so I am also in favor of aliasing to that.

This for the same reason we stopped using pantsu and many other godawful borrow words with perfect equivalents.

While the concept of "melon bread" is a Japanese invention, Log has it right.

I don't have a problem with either meronpan or melonpan but I've aliased both to melon_bread anyway.