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Dear Flowers That Bloom in Days of Yore

Kapitel 6

1. The girl in the letters, 2. my sweet little sister, 3. was older...!?

1. "After I left the brooch, I looked for you." 2. I'm in serious trouble right now! 3. Hi, Haruyo here! 4. "My curiosity got the better of me..." 5. The girl I was trading letters with was actually an upperclassman! 6. "Uhm," 7. "I think it was from up there."

1. "Lemme just take a quick peek!" 2. She won't notice a thing~ 3. Look how tiny she is! 4. She's going! 5. She's a high school-er!? 6. Wha...? 7. What should I do...?

1. let's talk register 2. Extra credit AKA I cannot shut up 3. For example, here Kasumi asks, 4. "How'd you braid it when it's that short?" omitting the subject. 5. But little sister Kasumi might say, 6. "Your hair is so short; how did you braid it?" 7. The switch works better with wider context, where I can omit more to make lines brief and casual. 8. "How'd you braid it when it's that short?" 9. "It was down past my shoulders before." 10. "Oh, my hair?" 11. Now one of the liberties I've taken is making Haruyos Onee-sama speech fancier - not so ornate as her letters, but enough to distinguish it from normal dialogue. 12. "I'd planned on giving this to you that day." 13. "Sadly, it's not a real one..." 14. "Nobody's given me a flower before." 15. Haruyo Onee-sama mode 16. Haruyo's onee-sama speech may be casual but still quite feminine. 17. "Here you are!" 18. "I'd planned on giving this to you that day." 19. "Sadly, it's not a real one..." 20. "Have this!" 21. "I wanted to give it to you back then." 22. "Too bad it's a fake flower..." 23. Once again, there's a little more context given when speaking upwards. Her Onee-sama voice is slightly stilted, but that's fitting. 24. Haruyo kouhai mode 25. But! 26. In reality Haruyo in Onee-sama mode is simply more casual, acting as if she's the one speaking to a younger student. 27. I elected to retain more of her refined speech, since I think it immediately captures the stark difference in tone where English (or my English at least) struggles to. 28. Ironically this makes Haruyo come across as more polite where she's actually being less. And as a result, I had to lean into the immature roughness in her usual speech. 29. The result isn't a perfectly faithful translation of the exact wording, but I think it faithfully represents the many voices of the characters, repurposing their existing traits in a way that suits a new language. 30. That's just translation, baby. 31. Expression's an artform, and art has no right answers. 32. You're stuck viewing it through my lens. (though it totally has wrong ones)