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> Who uses (or doesn't use) which honorific with which people is important. That's just a question of character voice. You can also say a translation is inaccu
by astrange 3y ago
> Who uses (or doesn't use) which honorific with which people is important.
That's just a question of character voice. You can also say a translation is inaccurate because in the original the characters were speaking Japanese and now they're speaking English.
But as they say, it can't be helped. You just need to be sure readers can still distinguish who's speaking in the result by making people sound different.
> Says who?
Most language learning material and anime fan common knowledge? Even Wikipedia, though it has some caveats.
And of course there's real life situations where people call girls -kun as well.
- charcircuit 3y ago>That's just a question of character voice. Fair, but I do feel that removing it is removing a social dynamic that can not simply be mapped just to the voice of a character. >Most language learning material. It happens in anime too, so that material is wrong and off topic from what was being discussed.