JUI-HUA HUANG (jhuang@UCLA.EDU)
Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:41:53 -0800
Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9901191157.B75682-0100000@tau2.ben2.ucla.edu> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:41:53 -0800 From: JUI-HUA HUANG <jhuang@UCLA.EDU> Subject: Re: Internet Message Header
On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Richard E. Rae wrote:
> >>You're referring to Kouran, right? What kind of accent *does* she have? (I
> like listening to her, incidentally.)<<
>
> Kouran speaks in Kansai-ben, a common dialect in the Osaka area. She also puts
> a little bit of a Chinese accent on it. Once you get familiar with the dialect
> variations ("uchi" instead of "watashi", "-han" instead of "-san", "ya" instead
> of "yo", for example) she's easier to understand.
Or sometimes referred to as "Osaka-ben."
> For that matter, all the characters have dialectic variations that imply their
> origins or class. Kanna speaks with Okinawan dialect, Sakura has a "country
> girl" accent, Sumire uses extremely formal speech which pegs her as a snob
> ("Watakushi" and "desu wa", for example), Iris speaks Japanese with a French
> accent and structure (note that her "mo" often ends in "mon", and her habit of
Slight correction. The "-mon" is childlike Japanese speech. Has nothing
to do with French. ^^; Iris da-mon! A native Japanese speaker
verified my suspicions. ^^;
> inserting her name as the speaker). Orihime belts out her lines with a very
> clear, hard-edged Italian accent that pegs her as a foreigner immediately. And
> so forth!
BTW, count me in as a DOI. Iris is very cute IMHO esp. in Japanese.
Doesn't mean I'm a pedophile either. :P You can like a character for
the character and have "no feelings" (romantic) for them. If I did, I'd
find it creepy too. Besides, for those who like the other girls (who are
mostly 16), they are underage (at least for the U.S) and at what age does
it construe to be a pedophile? I know they are some 12-year olds (Iris
excluded) who become "well-developed" at that age. Girls mature quicker
than boys. :P
Ray