Comments on: Embalmer 3

By: Connie

Connie — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:25:52 +0000

Jun: Oh, y’all definitely makes more sense in context, but yinz is… hm, very Pittsburgh, which is the only reason I mentioned it. I would have been remiss not to when given the opportunity to correct a character who lives in Pittsburgh on their use of colloquialisms :p Apparently it was yinz in the original too, which is really amazing given how obscure that is.

There are a lot of people that use y’all around where I (used to) live, it tends to go with a more West Virginia accent. Where are you from, by the way?

I want to say that it’s hard to imagine that anyone would spell y’all with the apostrophe in the wrong place since it’s a contraction, but it is sadly not at all hard to imagine.

edit: Apparently the new “reply to comment” function doesn’t quite work the way I think it does. it would be better if these comments appeared below what I was responding to.

By: Connie

Connie — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:12:15 +0000

Holy crap! I can’t believe that “yinz” made its way into a manga! I was only joking about that… it’s a colloquialism I’ve never seen or heard anywhere else. I think it would give most Americans pause, so it kind of amused me to think of it as the word Shinjyurou was hung up on. I can’t believe it was in the original. I’m really astounded at the level of research that must have went into that, especially since you could visit Pittsburgh several times and never once hear someone say it. It’s not terribly common in polite speech.

Thank you for sharing that, it made my day. It’s pretty impressive you remember such a small detail from a book that came out two or so years ago. And to be fair, “y’all” really does seem more appropriate, even if it’s not the Pittsburgh way.

By: Tim Beedle

Tim Beedle — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:51:12 +0000

Heh heh… Connie, I think that nitpick is with me and not Mihara-sensei. If memory serves (and it was a LONG time ago that I worked on this volume), I think the translation did read “yinz,” but I didn’t know what that meant and assumed it was either a poor translation or that Mihara was confused about the vernacular. I made the change to “y’all,” figuring that it got her point across and in a way most readers would be familiar with.

I apologize for making the book less accurate! I honestly didn’t know. I guess I need to spend some time in Pittsburgh, eh?

I hope you enjoy Vol. 4. I look forward to reading your review!

By: jun

jun — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:53:34 +0000

We say y’all down here all the time. And I’m always, ALWAYS happy to see it with the apostrophe in the wrong place. Lamentably, too many people down here put it after the A.

We may be Southern, but we don’t need to be grammatically incorrect! :)

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MangaBlog » Blog Archive » News and reviews roundup — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:21:48 +0000

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