Ray Huang (jhuang@UCLA.EDU)
Thu, 4 Feb 1999 08:30:59 -0800
X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-ID: <199902041636.IAA36348@theta2.ben2.ucla.edu> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 08:30:59 -0800 From: Ray Huang <jhuang@UCLA.EDU> Subject: Re: Sumire gets slamed!
> 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.
I think it was in ST2 and the geisha girls chapter that this was
mentioned. It was probably in ST1 as well, but I don't remember.
> As for Shampoo, it's totally different. She uses an artificial
Yes, I know Shampoo doesn't speak "Osaka/Kansai-ben," but I've
noticed and been told that it's often stereotypical that Chinese
people speak some other type of Japanese dialect -> i.e. non-
standard Tokyo. This is not always true however. My point that it's
often a joke. I'm sure you know that Japanese people tend to think
that only native Japanese people can speak the language properly,
and that gaijin can't. Chinese = gaijin too (even though it's a term
more applied to Westerners).
> 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.
True. I think a lot of anime has at least one character speaking
Kansai-ben. For example, Afuri Mann (El Hazard), one of the
characters in MI and UY, etc.
Ray
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