Futari Bus - Ch. 43 - Up in the Air

[selayar]

I understand everyone's anxiety on the wait for confession, but having to read the last 40 chapters I believe in Toyobayashi-sensei's ability in roasting the slow burn just right without overstaying the welcome.

I don't think the series will ever get axed as it is selling like hot cake right now

Even if the higher ups want to keep the series to survive long, I believe in sensei to write a good romance story

Can't wait how will Shunpei and An's relationship grows from now on

 

[jubuttib]

Oh looks dumb. And English is such a street side whore when it comes to sounds that I am willing to go with looks over zoomer-appealing spellings.

Blame Gutenberg for that, partially, rat bastard had to go and invent the printing press RIGHT in the middle of the great vowel shift, locking down spellings while they were actively changing (a lot of the words used to be pronounced more like they're written)... Also I've seen people use oh instead of ou since at least the late 90s. =)

In most varieties of English, /o/ basically only exists as a long vowel, so it seems weird to explicitly mark it as long. Or at least that's my best guess.

Hmm, there are plenty of examples in English with the short o sound, like long, dog, hot, bot, not, lot, etc. I dunno, could be someone's reasoning I guess.

The problem that it creates of course is obfuscating the difference between お and おう.

 

[BlackSword]

Blame Gutenberg

You want me to blame Germans for ruining it for everyone else? Done and done!

 

[sillybear25]

Blame Gutenberg for that, partially, rat bastard had to go and invent the printing press RIGHT in the middle of the great vowel shift, locking down spellings while they were actively changing (a lot of the words used to be pronounced more like they're written)... Also I've seen people use oh instead of ou since at least the late 90s. =)

Hmm, there are plenty of examples in English with the short o sound, like long, dog, hot, bot, not, lot, etc. I dunno, could be someone's reasoning I guess.

The problem that it creates of course is obfuscating the difference between お and おう.

I used the slashes because I'm using the International Phonetic Alphabet rather than the English alphabet. Maybe I would have been better off just using お instead?

At any rate, my point is that the O sound in words like "blow" or "coat" is almost always long in most English dialects. The O sounds in "long" and "hot" are not the same. (I believe the o in "long" is longer than the one in "hot", but I digress.) It doesn't help that English terminology about the English language uses "short" and "long" to refer to completely different vowel sounds instead of the actual length of the sounds.

 

[MangaRockRefugee]

Images you can hear

My honest reaction after Shunpei fumbles yet again.

 

[MangaRockRefugee]

F Don't say that, man, I have anxiety, I can't handle 300 chapters for a confession 😭☠️

Tbf because of that any series that doesn't dangle the formal relationship until the last three chapters is such a welcome entry.
Like Anjou-san, Kaguya-sama, Horimiya...

Man, can't we have some decent couple hijinks?