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• psycotica0@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If the term isn’t meant to be so “heavy” in the original usage, and there isn’t an equivalent “light” term here, I wonder if it would’ve been better to just translate it as “I didn’t realize you were a creep” or something else that misses the nuance, but gets the intended feeling and tone across.

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  • Saapas@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Does “pedophile” not work in the scene in question?

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    • psycotica0@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t know, I haven’t seen the scene or heard the vocal delivery, I’m not sure what kind of anime it is, or what kind of tone it’s trying to strike. If the mood is “she has discovered a dark secret and is scared” then yeah, “I didn’t realize you were a pedophile” would work great.

      But if instead she’s found some porn that isn’t necessarily naked children, and it’s played off as deadpan funny or awkward or misunderstanding, then I think “I didn’t realize you were a pedophile” might not come across light heartedly in the way “I didn’t realize you were a creep” or something similar would. Even if it’s an accurate “word for word” translation, it might not sound right in the scene or match the character’s delivery.

      But I don’t know this anime or what it’s about, so I don’t know what the tone should be. It just sounds like there’s disagreement with the line as chosen.

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• FishFace@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  he’d say he “likes them young”

  They already basically answered that.

  Though in this context, maybe the best thing to do is to not translate it. Most of the audience is likely to know the word already.

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  • Saapas@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Did the character mean to say that they’re a pedophile but without the bad implication of it?

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    • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I can’t answer that categorically, but that’s about what I’m inferring from what other people are saying.

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• turdas@suppo.fi ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t know, I haven’t watched the show so I don’t know what the meaning is here.

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