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PostPosted: Tue May 25, 2004 7:35 am    Post subject: Tinto's name Reply with quote Add User to Ignore List

Do you think Tinto was named after the Rio Tinto cooperation? Rio Tinto is a world leader in finding, mining and processing the earth's mineral resources.

http://www.riotinto.com/aboutus/companyInformation.aspx

The whole concept of Tinto in Suikoden II was that it is a mining nation, so it would certainly fit.
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PostPosted: Mon May 31, 2004 4:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Add User to Ignore List

Heh' that's kind of Ironic. Tinto might be a word of a different language maybe meaning Rock, or Mine or something.
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PostPosted: Mon May 31, 2004 5:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Add User to Ignore List

That's not irony. Irony would be if Rio Tinto was a leader in, like, airplane production. Or something.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 7:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Add User to Ignore List

I see irony there. Not thick, but it's present.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 11:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Add User to Ignore List

heh right
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 12:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Add User to Ignore List

It's fitting and appropriate, not ironic.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 2:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Add User to Ignore List

Yeah, that's probably where the name "Tinto" came from. That's actually really interesting. I wonder if any of the Tinto names (Gustav, Lilly, Marlowe) are related to Rio Tinto.

And no, it's not ironic. Irony is a coincidental opposite. Rio Tinto and Tinto are certainly not opposites, and their relationship is probably not coincidental.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 6:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Add User to Ignore List

it could be... i've looked at the company's history/about page and they exist with that name since 1995

but it could also be, that tinto means mountain, rock, mine or something in another language
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 9:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Add User to Ignore List

Tinto seems to mean "red" in Spanish. There's also a region called "Rio Tinto" in Spain, which translates to "Red Mountain."
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