#but mondstadt is german. which is the other big part of english. you would think there would be more language representation | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

ravenwolfie97 · 1 year ago

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okay i Finally feel like i have the time and energy to get back to genshin

it’s a small thing early on in the tcg grand prix thing but i thought it was interesting

so when kaeya greets charlotte, he says “enchantée”

which is initially in line with him being a smooth talking kind of guy

but since charlotte is from fontaine, which is mostly based on france, he’s probably just greeting her in her national language, which is really thoughtful and respectful of him

i just thought that was neat :0

#genshin impact #french interacting with english is difficult to figure out bc so many french words are loaned into english #so like it's hard to pinpoint whether they're actually trying to do a french thing specifically or if it's just coincidence #bc you Can say that as a fully english person and no one would really bat an eye. other than thinking you're kinda stuffy and pompous #there is something to be said that most of the regional language stuff is translated into english in genshin unless its like a title or nam #like no one says greetings in their national language elsewhere - any change in greeting or any idioms are still in english/common #so this is probably just a matter of coincidence that felt in-character for kaeya and charlotte happened to be from anime france #i still think it's cool >:3 #cuz im a language nerd and i like that genshin plays with language a lot #edit now that i've gone to liyue...and finished the rest in general dkdhdj #charlotte being called 'mademoiselle' makes sense too since its more respect toward her #but it is also more of a title. though i can't think of another region that does a thing like that #it is weird now that i think about it how inconsistently genshin sprinkles in foreign honorifics #like again. french is part of english. we're used to it #and the few times they use things like 'sama' and 'sensei' in inazuma/japanese its only not weird bc we're all weebs here #liyue i can somewhat understand because we don't know anything about chinese culture and language in eng #but mondstadt is german. which is the other big part of english. you would think there would be more language representation #other than fischl and venti's lyre and a couple other small things there really isn't much #it's just baseline fantasy land mostly in english #its not like people in mondstadt go around calling each other by Herr and Frau. or anyone in inazuma using -san or -chan even #like if those ever do happen. its an edge case. it isn't strict. so i wonder if fontaine is more strict in its etiquette #anyway. rambled for a good bit #point being i think it's weird but not unwarranted that french is being used more compared to other languages in everyday use here

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