Yes, that's the setting. Just confirmed it in Ember. After I removed all the tokens listed in the box, I then edited the movie details (CTRL-E to open the edit window, then click OK), and after it wrote the nfo again, the <originaltitle> tag did not have the leading article ("The") moved to the end.I also never had the leading articles (e.g. The) moved to the end. Is there some setting you use in EMM that does that? The only thing I saw was 'Sort Tokens to Ignore' in Settings > Movies but that did not alter the title in nfo.
Note that the <title> is not affected, only the <originaltitle>, and then only if I leave the Original Title field blank when editing the movie. If I manually repeat the Title in the Original Title field when editing the movie, it does not move the leading article to the end.