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joined May 24, 2014

All well when it ends well!

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joined Aug 18, 2021

I didn't know I needed a liella comic from mezashi but this was perfect (like always)

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joined Jul 6, 2020

I gotta know, are all these idioms translated directly or changed to make more sense in english? I’m really curious

Yes_Cantaloupe
Dia%20mezashi
joined Dec 5, 2014

They're all the EN equivalent of JP idioms, with almost exactly the same meanings.

The only thing that's changed in substance is Keke's reply (the "but I'm Chinese?"). In the JP, she doesn't know the term warikan (splitting the cost) and replies, confused, "pelican? like the bird?" I changed it to keep it actually a joke (and hopefully funny).

Only other change was losing a bit of wordplay in Chisato's last line that was pretty much impossible to preserve, playing up her love of round things.

bloodonthewater
Bigj
joined Jul 7, 2021

At least they didn't go belgian....

keke we dont care if ur chinese we are going dutch no complaints

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joined Jan 18, 2016

Confused Dutch noises Wat?

Areyougonnatouchem-17sq
joined Jan 27, 2019

English really does have a number of idioms based on slandering other cultures/ethnicities. For the Low Countries, there's "going Dutch" and "Dutch treat" (= "splitting the cost", presumably as a dig at perceived stinginess), as well as "Dutch courage" (=false courage because you're drunk), and then there's the "Dutch wife"; meanwhile, the French in the English imagination are supposed to be lascivious, giving rise to terms like "French postcard" (=porn), "French letter" (=condom), "French measles" (=syphilis), and "French kisses". "Welsh rabbit" is a bread-and-cheese dish, mocking Wales for being poor, and all this isn't even mentioning the words and phrases that are actual slurs against Jews, the Roma, African-Americans, and Native Americans.

Dia%20mezashi
joined Dec 5, 2014

I'm no expert, but I highly doubt that's a peculiarly English thing. The syphilis thing definitely isn't.

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