On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, Arromdee Kenneth wrote:
1. Tsubasa. I love you. I would date with you!
Hmmmm, I dunno 'bout this one. Tsubasa certaintly looks female, and
Kunou'll chase anything in a skirt......
Where is the expression "date with" from in the first place?
I thought that it was a mistranslation in one of the early Ranma Project
scripts, but I searched and couldn't find it.
"I would date with you" is a translation of "kousai shiyou"
which basically means "let's date" (dating in the sense of going steady,
not so much as going on a single "date") The translators have taken the
meaning of the phrase and rendered it in a way fitting Kuno's own
particular... (idiom, miss?) idiom! Who came up with this phrasing
first, I don't know, but it's pretty catchy...
mata ne,
bengman
who also knows the literary sources for several of kuno's quotes...