Non Milk-Milk Coffee Webcomic - Ch. 1 - Milk Coffee

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another senukin classic!
im not one to judge but seeing japanese honorifics in an english translation of a vietnamese webcomic is a little strange on god no cap
Yea. In Vietnam, people do use honorifics to respectfully address someone. But its kinda weird to call someone older such as "brother Long" or "Big brother Long", sound like calling your family members, right? So I think Japanese honorifics works fine in these situations when translate into English.
 
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Yea. In Vietnam, people do use honorifics to respectfully address someone. But its kinda weird to call someone older such as "brother Long" or "Big brother Long", sound like calling your family members, right? So I think Japanese honorifics works fine in these situations when translate into English.
i see! makes sense! on god no cap!
 
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I never had long san but I always thought it was milk tea because its called long san cha (cha means tea)
 
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Yea. In Vietnam, people do use honorifics to respectfully address someone. But its kinda weird to call someone older such as "brother Long" or "Big brother Long", sound like calling your family members, right? So I think Japanese honorifics works fine in these situations when translate into English.
Interesting. Thanks for the insight
 
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Yea. In Vietnam, people do use honorifics to respectfully address someone. But its kinda weird to call someone older such as "brother Long" or "Big brother Long", sound like calling your family members, right? So I think Japanese honorifics works fine in these situations when translate into English.
Couldn't you leave it in like how Chinese or Korean scanlating teams do it? For example, using "Anh Long" the same way Manhwa does "Oppa" and "Unnie" when addressing people? I think it makes the distinction between the work's country more unique.
 
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Yea. In Vietnam, people do use honorifics to respectfully address someone. But its kinda weird to call someone older such as "brother Long" or "Big brother Long", sound like calling your family members, right? So I think Japanese honorifics works fine in these situations when translate into English.
Vietnamese honorifics are very intuitive or maybe we could get more of them in media IMO they're pretty easy to understand if you just memorize them. Many manhwa translations keep the KR honorifics. I actually die inside every time i see "oneechan" instead of "chỉ".
 

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