When fansubbers get cute

[prillalar]

Character A hands something to Character B.

Character B (speaking): Oh, sankyuu.

Character B (subtitle): Oh, domo.


This brings up a good question, though. If you're writing fanfic in English about characters who speak Japanese, do you try to render the occasional bits of English they use in some special way to show that it's English and not Japanese? There doesn't seem to be a straightforward way to do that and I usually just don't try.

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[biggersandwich.livejournal.com]

Well, it doesn't always work (and especially not for long complicated dialogue) but when they say something simple like "think you" I'm likely to "hear" it as "sankyuu" or however they would literally say it.

I'm also less likely to "hear" the voice if the dialogue is OOC but that's a different issue...

(and what thing Momo does? I seem to have missed it...)