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Old 2011-01-14, 22:32   Link #7619
JMvS
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: CH aka Chocaholic Heaven
Age: 40
Well, it appears natural for the relation between Maria and Nagi to be familiar, as they almost grew up together, and Maria is for Nagi a Mother/Big Sister substitute.


Another of my rants on the French edition is that they make Hayate and Maria use a too familiar speech when addressing each other (resulting in weirdly dissonant discourse)... ... when it's clear that their junior-senior interactions are much more formal (and that there are ways of rendering that in French ).

Oh well... perhaps I'm a an old-fashioned relic, as I am used to formal speech and addressing peoples by their surname, and they adapted it to the more familiar and modern ways of speech of nowadays youngsters.
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