Glossary and vocabulary

Shiroi Hane

The term itself is an Evangelion reference, which is confused by the official translation being "Absolute Terror".
Admittedly, staring at the wrong woman's thighs can result in Absolute Terror.

paulnamida

@paul-nebeling I'm not a religious person, but this is heresy (lol). Zettai Ryouiki ftw!!! And don't forget the holy trinity of Zettai Ryouiki + Twintails + Tsundere.

Terrence

@paulnamida said in Glossary and vocabulary:

And don't forget the holy trinity of Zettai Ryouiki + Twintails + Tsundere.

...+Ahoge

Eins

@Aruseus493
I just wanted to add something about mou. I had a girlfriend who said this a lot. While it's a word, it's more like a vocalization. It's meaning is obvious when you hear it but harder to parse in text. Imagine it as something like a sigh of frustration to a groan depending on context. However, the term is completely translatable.

@paulnamida
Is Rin Tohsaka a saint then?

Paul Nebeling

Or the ever-present "hai". While properly translated as "yes", I think I've seen more variant translations for this word than any other.

Terrence

@eins said in Glossary and vocabulary:

Is Rin Tohsaka a saint then?

Rin Tohsaka is a master. And we are her servants. Bow down to the Tsundere master!

LegitPancake

@paul-nebeling What’s extra confusing is when “hai” means no. I never understood that lol

Jaquobus

@legitpancake That's because “hai” doesn't strictly means yes, but that the proposition of the question is true. There's actually a linguistic paper from 1998 about this topic. Just shows you that translation between languages, especially between different language families can be tricky.

myskaros

@legitpancake said in Glossary and vocabulary:

@paul-nebeling What’s extra confusing is when “hai” means no. I never understood that lol

It can happen in English too. Consider the question "You don't want a drink?"

Yes, I don't want a drink.
No, I don't want a drink.

It's just dependent on context and how the translator is translating.

Paul Nebeling

@myskaros Something tells me that in Japanese, that sentence would start with Hai, no matter how it is written in English.