• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    24 days ago

    I am reminded of how so many anime gives characters from Osaka a southern drawl accent in English dubs and even that requires knowing that a lot of people in Japan consider Osaka to be a backwater full of rednecks for it to make sense.

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      24 days ago

      We should be translating Kansai-ben into Bostonian. It’s obvious in context; because both are urban dialects.