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kaurwreck · 8 months ago

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Claiming that Dazai isn't called some iteration of demonic prodigy in canon is like saying my father's beloved term of endearment for me, and later my cat, didn't translate to "colonist devil woman." There are certainly other translations of the same characters, but it would be wildly odd for someone to correct us on our semantics just because there exists a more formally recognized translation.

#bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd dazai #i am not telling y'all my father's native language but it's certainly not in the same family as english #part of the joke is that we did disagree on our preferred localizations of the same phrase #but both were valid localizations lmao #and neither were the formally recognized translation #and the meanings did change between them #because english isnt the template from which all languages are built lmao #i tagged for the avoidance of doubt and because i look at my own tags and i know im going to find this funny later #the first time i heard him call my cat the same phrase he absolutely meant it as a slur and i lost it

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