Everyone in MGS apparently speaks like that because that’s how you speak in Japanese, when you acknowledge something you just repeat it as a question instead of saying something like “oh cool”, normally it’s localized away.
I’ve always wondered if that was the case. I’ve also noticed that a lot of translated sentences end with some variation of “isn’t it?” and figure there’s some similar linguistic quirk at play.
They did the same thing in Final Fantasy X. I found it a bit annoying ending every sentence with “ya?” At first I thought it was just a quirk they added to Wakka to make him seem more like a chill islander, but then other characters started to do it too, and I realized it was probably a translation from “ね？”
Everyone in MGS apparently speaks like that because that’s how you speak in Japanese, when you acknowledge something you just repeat it as a question instead of saying something like “oh cool”, normally it’s localized away.
Everyone in MGS speaks like that because that’s how you speak in Japanese?
Oh, cool.
I’ve always wondered if that was the case. I’ve also noticed that a lot of translated sentences end with some variation of “isn’t it?” and figure there’s some similar linguistic quirk at play.
They did the same thing in Final Fantasy X. I found it a bit annoying ending every sentence with “ya?” At first I thought it was just a quirk they added to Wakka to make him seem more like a chill islander, but then other characters started to do it too, and I realized it was probably a translation from “ね？”
Desu ne? Is my very uneducated guess on what is translating to isnt it?
Innit?
Sodesuka
ain’t that so?
Naruhodo
Naruhodo (doesn’t Naruhodo at all)
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Or the Midwestern US/Canadian “eh?” maybe
Manga TLs love “at this rate” and “various”
It’s actually a practical way to answer, because it tells the person making the statement whether the listener heard them correctly.