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What prompted this comment was that when I was there, I was watching some show with the family I was staying with, and the father pointed to the subtitles and said something about the dialect. It was a comedian, so nauturely I assumed he was from Oosaka (hehe)...well, that's not entirely true, the dad told me he was from Oosaka. He said something about needing to translate......From what I remember, there was a set of characters then a second set of characters in parenthases and that what he was talking about....mmmm. He was probably making a joke that I didn't pick up on.
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--- Kevin Kirton <kevin -at- k-tecs -dot- co -dot- jp> wrote:
>Sorry to say, but I'm pretty sure you are wrong about this. The dialects in
>these parts (Kyoto-ben, Osaka-ben, etc.), which make up Kansai-ben ("ben" =
>dialect), do not require subtitles to be understood nationwide. Some of the
>most famous comedians here (Sanma, Downtown, and many others) routinely
>speak in Kansai-ben and are popular all over Japan. Even my 5-year old
>daughter's favorite cartoon, which is made in Tokyo, features an elementary
>school-age character who speaks in broad Kansai-ben.
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