@yurieureka I can't believe my brain didn't put 2 and 2 together, I didn't connect the チューチュー (kissy kissy, chū chū) with the トライン (train) and see that it was choo choo train, making the whole thing a much more coherent pun
@mekrabbat that seems to be the case. The Japanese there is pretty straightforward so I don't think I missed some genius plan, I think Namekawa just planned to call her out in a public place. Not like that could ever stop Prez though.
@Istvan90623 Just because Japan isn't in a bubble doesn't mean they pay attention to the squabbles of action stars from decades ago.
The original was actually Sorbenegger but that's a really iffy looking word and I don't want ever reader to do a double take thinking that Marie just dropped a...
Just fixed some stuff, reread the first volume because I got the official release and remembered カレクサさん (karekusa-san, Mr/Ms. Dried Grass) on page 19 was the name of Susuki's mother and I made an error when I called the Werewolf and Lizardman words for the EEEUU Goblin calques, they are in fact...
@Lomyr yeah, I remember once hearing that applying latin grammar standards to formal english language (in the context of criticizing a preposition at the end of a sentence or trailing infinitive) is like trying to cram a foot into an ill fitting shoe, and in my experience Japanese fits the shoe...
@Lomyr Hakaba isn’t saying that the single tap represents the volitional modality, nor is he saying it is the volitional case, he only uses a volitional example, so I assume its use does not include phrases with a volitional verb followed by か.
Oddly enough, the volitional case is alternatively...
@gpl That's odd, in Spanish the word for linguistics is feminine so it definitely couldn't be Spanish either. I'm not exactly an expert on romance languages, although I did take a few years of latin.
@Himatago99 the same thing happens in The Story Between a Dumb Prefect and a High School Girl with an Inappropriate Skirt Length so I think this is just some old wive's tale that comes from a culture with no awareness of stretch marks.