Wing H. Yi (yokosima@EROLS.COM)
Thu, 4 Feb 1999 05:36:54 -0500
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (Win95; I) Message-ID: <36B97846.FDEABA53@erols.com> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 05:36:54 -0500 From: "Wing H. Yi" <yokosima@EROLS.COM> Subject: Re: Sumire gets slamed!
Ray Huang wrote:
> > Hm... strange considering Kouran is from China.
>
> Well, that's the joke. All people from China are considered to speak
> "Osaka/Kansai-ben" or some kind on non-standard Tokyo dialect.
> Haven't you noticed how Shampoo from Ranma talks, etc.?
They mention at some point in the games (and probably in the OVA too)
that Kouran lived in Osaka for a while when she first came to Japan,
which explains her choice of dialect.
As for Shampoo, it's totally different. She uses an artificial
way of speaking that someone imagined as how Chinese people
would speak imperfect Japanese. For Ranma 1/2 you have to look at Ukyou
for Kansai-ben.