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Misha constantly uses this, and I could never figure out why. I figure it's not a typo since the game has very few of those and it happens constantly. Then I thought it might let you tell between when its Misha's thoughts and Shizune's thoughts, but that didn't end up making sense. SO WHAT DOES THE TILDE MEAN? Help me out here!

I guess this means Misha speaks with a too loud, too high-pitched voice.

Something insupportable, but fortunately the game is not dubbed.

You mean not voiced, right? Because there are no Japanese voices to be dubbed.

From what I've seen, it's supposed to make it sound more cute. Like

nyoro~n

or

AM I KAWAII? UGUU~

I think it stands for speaking in a melodic way. A plain "Hello" becomes "Hello~o". You speak it as if you're singing.

Well, I guess that makes sense, definitely not something I've ever come across before. Misha is very strange.

It was originally used in Japanese dialogue to indicate that something's being said in a melodic tone, which is usually just used for flavor but sometimes even affects meaning (うん="yeah" vs う～ん="nope"). Since there's no particular equivalent in English, translators have tended to leave it in. These days, English speakers of a more weeabish inclination use it to make something more cute or playful sounding, regardless of tone (meaning it doesn't necessarily have any effect on how something is actually said). Kind of like a more subtle version of a smiley face.

Csihar wrote:It was originally used in Japanese dialogue to indicate that something's being said in a melodic tone, which is usually just used for flavor but sometimes even affects meaning (うん="yeah" vs う～ん="nope"). Since there's no particular equivalent in English, translators have tended to leave it in. These days, English speakers of a more weeabish inclination use it to make something more cute or playful sounding, regardless of tone (meaning it doesn't necessarily have any effect on how something is actually said). Kind of like a more subtle version of a smiley face.

Something like that but it also means to enlongate the sound. For example, in the above Yep/Nope Yes would be UN and Nope would be UUN. In Misha's laugh it could serve to indicate, apart that the laugh is/might be melodical, that it goes on. I don't know if I'm expressing myself right... but that's mroe or less what I was told.

BTW, not related but as medical advancements have always been an interest in the community (although this doesn't affect our girls directly), a seemingly viable HIV-B vaccine is in the works and the test results are very positive: http://alturl.com/4z9ra (Text in Spanish).

that boy needs therapy

Polydunami wrote:You mean not voiced, right? Because there are no Japanese voices to be dubbed.

Why Japanese? KS is an English original VN, so if anything there are no English voices to be dubbed.

Aren't semantics fun?

Mirage_GSM wrote:

Polydunami wrote:You mean not voiced, right? Because there are no Japanese voices to be dubbed.

Why Japanese? KS is an English original VN, so if anything there are no English voices to be dubbed.

Polydunami is saying that there's no Japanese voices to be dubbed over with English ones. He's pointing out that Kantaro's use of the term 'dubbed' is misplaced, because dubbing implies that KS would be originally in Japanese. He's saying that if the game were voiced, then this issue may come up, as it would be in English, and there's no real equivalent of ~ in English.

So... you two might be saying the same thing.

I thought it was to show some of the Devs are Australians...

Waltzing Ma~, Waltzing Ma~
You'll come a-Waltzing Ma~ with me

Merlyn_LeRoy wrote:I thought it was to show some of the Devs are Australians...

Waltzing Ma~, Waltzing Ma~
You'll come a-Waltzing Ma~ with me

Oh dear god

Merlyn_LeRoy wrote:I thought it was to show some of the Devs are Australians...

Waltzing Ma~, Waltzing Ma~
You'll come a-Waltzing Ma~ with me

Tom Waits get out of my head!