More Than Lovers, Less Than Friends - Vol. 3 Ch. 30

[dowiet]

that would be one hell of an awkward moment to walk in on this
also how she found out his hand size lol

 

[tokichiroaoi]

That's some way to measure palm size. Yes yes of course.

 

[SUPER7X]

I don't know if they did or didn't, but the TL probably did it for panel size more than anything, fitting jp to english translations in the speech bubbles is a bitch sometimes

That was my presumption as well, but “Xmas” ≠ “Christmas”, so they shouldn't have done that.

 

[Luke_chase]

I woke up my roommate with the surprised laughter resulting from that measurement technique. And if that didn't do it, the second measurement technique in the .5 chapter did.

Same lmao

 

[chusetto]

Sweet cheeks

 

[ikkyuisme]

not the spank mark

 

[Nemo1986]

If it works, it works I suppose.

 

[jlm]

Did they really say “Xmas” in the Japanese? Doubtful.

I hate to break it to you, but this is a translation, not the original thing they say

 

[idk234]

this is one of my favorite series

 

[SUPER7X]

Did they really say “Xmas” in the Japanese? Doubtful.

I was right that they didn't. While that is one X-looking メ, it's still very much “Merry Christmas”. Bad translation.

 

[Mieglen]

Hats off to her, that was really smart of her to do that 😂

 

[CT-9904]

I didn't see that one coming at all, got me laughing real good lmao

 

[Valle_reading_manga]

Lmfao, if I weren't under constraints due to the time of I day I would've laughed out loud

 

[Splitframe]

I was right that they didn't. While that is one X-looking メ, it's still very much “Merry Christmas”. Bad translation.

I read it as Merry Christmas in my head. Though, I read any Xmas as Christmas, do people in the US say iks-mas or eeks-mas? Like in XBOX? I always thought it's just a shorthand.

 

[SUPER7X]

I read it as Merry Christmas in my head. Though, I read any Xmas as Christmas, do people in the US say iks-mas or eeks-mas? Like in XBOX? I always thought it's just a shorthand.

Yes people pronounce the X. It's definitely just shorthand to many people, but some use it as a way of avoiding “Christ”, and some see all uses of it as that, so they're not equivalent terms and it really is a bad translation.

 

[AnacondaHL]

Yes people pronounce the X. It's definitely just shorthand to many people, but some use it as a way of avoiding “Christ”, and some see all uses of it as that, so they're not equivalent terms and it really is a bad translation.

Xmas is a perfectly reasonable and common abbreviation of Christmas.

In every bit of its etymology it is still dripping with Christ in meaning and symbolism.

This translation is fine.