@In.New.York.I.Milly.Rock.

3 months ago

Since you mentioned it, "dialect" is not the correct word. A dialect is a culturally marked form of a language shared by individuals from the same context. Lumbee English is characteristic of the Lumbee tribe. Katakana, Hiragana an Kanji are three different writing systems of the same language - japanese. You are sure to hear someone from Osaka say 大きに to thank you, but that would never come out of the mouth of some Ginza girl. Yet, both of them write "大きにありがとう" with the exact same syllabaries. It's more like they are 3 different "alphabets" in the same language, if it makes any sense. The reason why those of us who understand japanese say it's great evidence is because the way Gaster talks is profoundly unnatural. The mixture of katakana accompanied by kanji and no hiragana is not a "tone" characterization, it's a fundamental and deliberate writing quirk. The way the "it's Gaster" people frame it makes it seem like it'd be comparable to Susie speaking candidly, instead of apathetic or rude, when it's more like if Papyrus suddenly starte using Helvetica Neue for his font instead of, y'know, Papyrus. At no point in the game does this happen and Sans only does it in EXTREMELY serious moments of Undertale. You can count on one hand. I can't emphasize this enough: literally no one writes in japanese like Gaster does. It's not a tonal change; it would be a break in the consistency of characterization so dramatic that, outside of the Genocide route of UT, it happens ONCE and only for the most serious character, if my memory serves me right. Frankly I've found that bringing up this point to "it's Gaster" people that don't understand japanese is a fool's errand. It's not just a character speaking "in a different way", it's a character breaking an extremely deliberate and eccentric element of uts characterization for the sake of nothing.

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