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translation question for western readers
would it put you off if a story keep it honorific from it's original language. idk why translator keep taking them off and replacing it with just a name... it loses parts of the tone and character for most characters.
and similarly, would it put you off that couples would use honorific for siblings for their s/o? that's the only reason why I think some of these translator take the honorific off tbh. like hyung and oppa is originally for family members. but you can also use this for ppl outside of your family. this is not a weird concept but I've seen certain people take the "family" part too seriously and can't seem to wrap their head around that concept. like you can't ship character who call each other's "brothers" even tho they're in no way related to each other. example of this is a zenless ship, Billy (a robot) x Lighter (human), who met at an underground fighting ring. they're not related, so not incest, and they don't grow up together, ruling out pseudoincest.
I prefer it when they keep the original language's honorifics. I also am not put off by a character calling their lover something like hyung or noona, I think ppl who get weirded out by that should try to understand that it's a different culture and they're not literally referring to them as their sibling reply
translation is !!always!! better than localisation. a t/n goes a long way but w hyung/noona i personally think it's unneeded. if readers can't do a quick research on korean terms that come up as often as hyung/noona then what're they doing TT.
official trans sucks sometimes bc they take these honourifics out or westernise (americanise tbh) the fu...... reply
Nope. Not weirded out at all. I actually prefer the usage of honorfics, familial identifiers, and culturally specific endearments and idioms. Removing them makes it more European/Western and takes away the Asian feel of the work.
That's why I love most fan translations that kept the terms and just used a translator note near the word or a footnot...... 1 reply
I get so confused whenever I encountered that kind of translation I always drop it, it sucks cause it's weird for me since it's not the usual "hyung/oppa" and "unnie/noona" also some people might get the wrong idea that it's incest since not many people read enough manhwas to know about hyung/oppa/unnie/noona thing reply
Honorifics are a must tbh, they have no equivalent in the west, so they clarify tone, respect/disrespect or mockery even, playfulness and so on.
Replacing them with halfassed western terms just takes too much away. It's no good to me.
Let me keep hearing Ah-juicy's dirty talk instead of the one from MiStEr or 'uncle'.
Just, nah bro...don't. Keep ...... reply
I always prefer the original. When manga/hwa/hua localize honorifics to the English equivalent (brother/sister/etc), I correct it in my head as I read so it sounds right (hyung/unnie/ge/etc). reply
It’s hard to match 1:1 in English, so I think they should keep the honorifics as much as possible, because sometimes when they try to “match”, they just sound too formal/stiff.
A few examples I can think off:
In Hello Veterinarian, the characters refer to each other as Mr./Ms, but I’ve seen some of the unofficial translations that use “D...... 1 reply
