I guess I'll explain my reasoning for being so strongly opposed to having "Aura" in its name.
Look at the Unova Elite Four, for starters. It's composed of all four aforementioned types. It also happens to be the only E4 which doesn't have any specific order; they're all equal. There's no "leader" to them, and there shouldn't be. (Note I'm not talking about the Champion.)
Same goes for this. There's no "strongest" out of all of them. Aura is already the "Fighting" form of it; having "Aura" also be the general term makes Fighting!Aura seem like it's superior to the rest. And it's not.
I think it would actually be kind of funny if they were trying to decide this in-universe too.
Maybe "Aura" was the first of these things to be more properly documented, then people noticed Psychic, Ghost, and Dark type things that were similar, so they lumped them together. (I'd make a bigger case for the original term favoring Psychic-type stuff, but that's for something else...) And maybe the scientific community is still debating what the proper term should be, and whether to lump Fighting and Psychic-type into one group or split Ghost and Dark type Obscura. Maybe even have some PEFE Interns get into a fight over what it should be called.
But Eskay, they're all Aura, so the name stays. The reason we (meaning the PEF Eers in the pokedex chat) originally came up with the term Aura to encompass everything was that thanks to a certain BP article, we noticed that Aura (Or "Wave" in Japanese) encompasses more than just Fighting type moves like Aura Sphere and Force Palm, and included moves such as Dark Pulse and Dragon Pulse (Though admittedly, we haven't quite figured out where that would fit on the table. I remember talking a bit about making a secondary chart for stuff like Dragon Pulse and Energy Ball, but it didn't go much of anywhere).
That's...basically how it went down in chat when it came down to theories, though I'm probably the only person who remembers that. (The curse of having a memory like mine, makes everyone else seem like my sister with her abysmal long-term memory. >_>)
edited 21st Dec '12 12:30:13 PM by rmctagg09
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite....Sorry, needed a second to calm down.
Anyway...
The problem I'm trying to get people to see is, "Aura" is too uncertain a term. There's Aura as the general term for Fighing!Aura, Psychic, Ghost!Obscura, and Dark!Obscura. Then there's your new suggestion that Aura could apply to Fighting and Psychic, as the "opposite" of Obscura. Then there's Fighting!Aura itself, which is the only one of the four which is actively referred to as "Aura".
The problem lies in the number of things the word "Aura" could apply to. I'm trying to get us to agree on a simple term to use for the collective, to avoid the confusion. A simple term that can't be mistaken for one of the units.
In my opinion, "Expanded Aura" isn't a simple term; Tagg said he resorts to shorthand instead, and I had to ask how it was any different from the unit.
I liked Silent's suggestion of "Enteria" because it did exactly that: provided a simple term which couldn't be mistaken for any of its units. I'd gladly listen to any other suggestions, but the only other suggestions were what I was trying to avoid.
@Eskay I do understand your point, but it doesn't bother me quite as much as it does you.
Personally, I'd be in favor of something like Aura being the blanket term and having "Luma" or something like it as the term for the Psychic and Fighting-type things, so Psychic!Luma and Fighting!Luma rather than Psychic and Fighting!Aura.
The rest of you don't have to use this by any means, because, though it would be nice if we could come to a consensus, it would be kind of fun if we don't and just use our own terms for it as long as everyone else understands what we're talking about.
"Don't worry, murder is a sign of affection." - An amalgamation of DunsparceWolf: I'm going by what Tagg said.
Please try to pay a bit more attention.
It's funny how the human brain is so consistently drawn in to argue matters of terminology.
Yeah, some people, on some occasions, have referred to all quadrants as a whole as "Aura", or the Psychic/Fighting ones, or just Fighting (Fighting being the only canon use of the capitalized term). Yeah, ambiguity is annoying, and if a tidy resolution comes up it can't hurt to adopt it.
But just as Imperial/Metric arguments are not going to change the world, let's not get too hot-eared about this, 'k?
edited 21st Dec '12 1:13:27 PM by Tangent128
Do you highlight everything looking for secret messages?I'm not a fan of the term. It sounds...I dunno, inelegant? Artificial? I can't think of what bothers me about it specifically, but the general idea is that it sort of sounds like something someone made up to sound cool. And while it would be possible to have that be an in-universe thing too, I think a better solution would be to find a better word for it, that doesn't need to be justified.

I prefer Aura (and its variants). Fighting's "Aura" is basically a psychic ability, so putting it in the same category as Psychic-type powers makes sense.