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fandomsecrets2008-02-26 06:01 am
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[ SECRET POST #417 ]
⌈ Secret Post #417 ⌋
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40 OP
(Anonymous) 2008-02-27 12:39 am (UTC)(link)I'm sure the muns are nice people. That doesn't mean I don't think that their AU!versions of Sakura and Syaoran fail horribly.
Not knowing a certain language can be a basis for ridicule if you're using it to be cool and give your characters "new names". They don't make sense, and for the record, I don't know Chinese either. I just know enough Japanese to know that Syaoran = Xiao Lang. And I've read the manga, so I know that the name "Sakura" is important because it's connected to Nadeshiko. I'm pretty sure Sakura wouldn't want to have a different name.
Re: 40 OP
(Anonymous) 2008-02-27 12:52 am (UTC)(link)I've read the manga too. Sakura was a very important name--to Nadeshiko. Not that Sakura doesn't love her mother despite having only known her for the first three years of her life, and not that Fujitaka likely hasn't expressed how important the name is. Ying Fa and Xiao Lang are names Sakura and Syaoran started calling each other, privately. But in Econtra, Sakura decided to use Ying Fa as her name.
40 OP
(Anonymous) 2008-02-27 12:57 am (UTC)(link)The new names don't make sense. It's not Fujitaka that says the name is important. It's Sonomi. To Sakura. Volume 3? When she opens the box that Shield was guarding, and she sees the bouquet that Nadeshiko had in her wedding. Sonomi explains that Nadeshiko loved sakuras, and that she'd name her daughter after them. And that Sakura is "that Sakura".
But well, I guess that one's more subjective.
Syaoran being called Xiao Lang, though? Isn't. For Sakura, "Syaoran" is the way to say "Xiao Lang". It's Japanese phonetics. Syaoran calls himself "Syaoran" in the manga. There's no difference for a Japanese person. Therefore, the name change is ridiculous.
Re: 40 OP
(Anonymous) 2008-02-27 01:01 am (UTC)(link)Sonomi told her then, all right. I remember that.
And while you certainly have a point, Ying Fa/AU!Sakura/whatever is learning/has learned a considerable amount of Chinese, thus justifying her calling Syaoran "Xiao Lang", no?
40 OP
(Anonymous) 2008-02-27 01:06 am (UTC)(link)"Syaoran" is the way it's written phonetically in Japanese, but it's written in katakana. Meaning they say it as a foreign word.
Er, it's like the difference between "Raito" and "Light". Only that the difference is clearer for someone who isn't Japanese. For Sakura, "Syaoran" and "Xiao Lang" are the exact same thing.
Re: 40 OP
(Anonymous) 2008-02-27 01:13 am (UTC)(link)All my point is, is that AU Sakura has learned to pronounce Syaoran's name as a Chinese person would pronounce it. *shrug*
Re: 40 OP