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I agree it fell short. I thought the party about using more imagery in English than Japanese was interesting. I didn't know that was uncommon in that language.
by ggggtez 9y ago
I agree it fell short. I thought the party about using more imagery in English than Japanese was interesting. I didn't know that was uncommon in that language.
- ethbro 9y agoI know it's present in Zen poetry, but not sure beyond that. As a semi-related concept, I stumbled across an entry on Haragei [1] (non-verbal, implied meaning?) in Japanese culture yesterday. The myriad of ways that necessary communication is accomplished in different cultures is fascinating. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haragei https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haragei
- unscaled 9y agoIt seems like a wild exaggeration to me. Japanese definitely has it's share of imagery and wordplay. It's just that most video game scripts - especially from that era - tend to employ a language that is straightforward and functional at its best and uninspiring and dull at its worst. Japanese does have many forms of imagery though. For a prime example of cheeky imagery in wordplay like the one in the sodliers' dialogue you can probably look no further than Rakugo - which employs wordplay so much that it's notoriously hard to translate.