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flemmings ([personal profile] flemmings) wrote2010-01-01 11:11 pm

Writer's tics

Just realized that my way of expressing Hakkai and Tenpou's desu-masu Japanese is to make their English Latinate. UnLatinate the English and they no longer sound like themselves to my ear. Goujun however speaks da-tai (checks: yes, even to Konzen), and I always Latinate *him*. Must unLatinate Goujun forthwith, since 'forthwith' is a word he'd never use.

[identity profile] purpleicicles.livejournal.com 2010-01-02 12:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Latinate? Dai-tai? I am woefully out of touch with languages now TTATT
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[personal profile] incandescens 2010-01-02 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, I can hear Goujun more as an "at once" than as a "forthwith".