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lemonduckisnowawake · 3 months

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On the note of Westernization, some friends and I have been talking about ORV (Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint) again (thanks, Bacon), and it (along with copious amounts of manga/manhwa binging) reminded me how much the westernizing of Asian names from the surname-first name order to first name-surname order can be so awkward to me. As such, I propose two potential solutions.

One, that they stop and keep the Asian way of ordering names in translations and have people deal (I mean, that IS what Asians do, and I'm sure most other countries with the surname-first name order do the same with Western names)

OR, that Asian translations of Western works also switch the names around. Thus, it becomes Jackson Percy or, like...the name is Bond, Bond James. Or Duarte Jude. Dresden Harry. Phillips Phillip.

#lemon duck quacks #literary lemonade #give me that je ireumeun fowl artemis-ibnida or atashi wa swan. swan bella. i think chinese would be wo jiao brekker kaz #not only would that be objectively hilarious especially with classics. but it would personally make me laugh #okay i kid #but imagine a character with the surname gross? asianized it would be gross someone #anyway dokja kim. I don't know him #nor sangah yoo or joonghyeok yoo #i cannot #i hope if the novel gets translated officially they keep it to kim dokja and such

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