Nee-chan or Sis?

Subject: Nee-chan or Sis? Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:21 pm

What should Nee-chan [Which means sister] be translated as? Left as Nee-chan, assuming that people know what it means... Or Sis?

My vote is on Nee-chan. Not only does it look better, but it gives people a certain confidence that they're learning Japanese.

Guest

i vote for nee-chan it just seems more ... right

Posts : 2 Join date : 2008-04-25 Age : 33

I vote for Nee-chan too ^.^

Guest

I agree with Zodiac, nee-chan just fits better.

Guest

Definitely Nee-chan. Very Happy

Subject: Re: Nee-chan or Sis? Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:38 am

Nee-chan! :3

Guest

I would prefer Nee-chan Razz

Subject: Re: Nee-chan or Sis? Wed Apr 30, 2008 5:35 pm

Nee-chan

What's with the third option? Do you have an alternative in mind? ^^

Subject: Re: Nee-chan or Sis? Wed Apr 30, 2008 5:40 pm

lol, just in case people have other ideas that I don't.. Sister? Sissy? Sissy poo? I dunno XD

Guest

Sis. But maybe nee-chan with a TL-note the first time you use it in every anime, and after that just nee-chan. Most of the people watching anime understand nee-chan very well, but not everybody.

Guest

I agree with the nee-chan but with a little note at the top for people who don't know japanese.

Subject: Re: Nee-chan or Sis? Thu May 01, 2008 10:23 am

If you ever watched school rumble season 1 or 2, they actually do use nee-san! and of course a slider from the top appears explaning what nee-san actually means.

Btw? you know when theres random back ground speaking... ive seen sum subbers actually go to the extent of translating and putting smaller font near their body/face. Though ive seen this get messy and requires me pausing just to read what everyone says!

HOW DO JAP PEOPLE SOAK IN SO MUCH LANGUAGE ><!

Guest

i will go with nee-chan or nee-san then put in a TL note stating what it means to people...not only japs chinese also sap in a lot of language since the chinese has 7 main dialects...hahaha...i am a malsyain chinese and i know 3 diff dialects of chinese and my country language too...currently wanting to learn jap.

Guest

I think Nee-chan is the best opption as well. The animes are japanese, so some words, espacially concerning a title or a person, like "sensei", "...-chan", "senpai" have to remain in japanese, so that the atmosphere isn't lost.

Subject: Re: Nee-chan or Sis? Thu May 01, 2008 11:53 am

Ok! Overwhelming vote on Nee-chan, so I'll use that from now on in anything. It was mainly for Monochrome Factor. Sis, to me, didn't sound very nice. I wanted to know if most people felt the same and I was right, so I'll use Nee-chan.

All who posted, thank you for the input!

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