My Death Flags Show No Sign of Ending - Vol. 2 Ch. 11 - Distressed Erica

[argo12]

@derpman You act like Kireicake doesn't regularly abandon managa for months before suddenly swooping back in when he's been sniped.

 

[ReRead]

At least the mc seems smart rather than being dumb thinking that everything he does is normal.(smart but severely misunderstanding everything and making people misunderstand him)

 

[Darkmint13]

I could be wrong but the expression is usually "rats!" or "drat!" I have never heard/read 'drats' used anywhere.

 

[Lucca_R]

His brain has one Asshole Text Converter™

 

[Empiur]

Google Translate: Automatic -> Asshat

 

[HydraGC]

@Darkmint13 'Drats' was something used a British slang in the late the 90s but it fell out of common use due to more... extreme exclamations being used

 

[Lorddaimaou79]

Hahah..seems like his auto harold mode cause a misunderstandings to others
Well this is just one of the beginning of the misunderstanding

 

[Darkmint13]

@HydraGC Ok. Huh. That is so weird. It's like they just shoved the two expressions together. Whelp, I never lived in Britain so I had no idea. Kind of interesting that the author used british slang from the 90's though.

 

[HydraGC]

@Darkmint13 Yeah, British slang is varied and strange. Doesn't help that the dialect changes absurdly for such a small island. Start in one portion of England and travel for 30mins and you're in another spot where everyone talks different and you've past as least 5 different pronunciations of Bread.

So, slang has mutated a lot because of that.
Strange, but it could be that there simply wasn't a proper English word for the Japanese exclamation so the translator chose what they assumed to be the most appropriate.

 

[Darkmint13]

@HydraGC Thanks. This was a very enlightening talk. I would've never learned any of this without you. :)