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re: Shogun - Official Series Discussion Thread **Spoilers**

Posted on 2/28/24 at 11:49 pm to
Posted by PurpleandGold Motown
Birmingham, Alabama
Member since Oct 2007
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Posted on 2/28/24 at 11:49 pm to
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Why is the Japanese Portuguese translator speaking English and not Portuguese?


Because he's an English linguist. He speaks all the trading languages.
Posted by lsupride87
Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 2/29/24 at 8:15 am to
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Because he's an English linguist. He speaks all the trading languages.
The Japanese person in the village was speaking English, after the said to him “Can you speak Portuguese?”

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But if they kept this standard up the show would be almost entirely and Japanese or Portuguese. The Japanese obviously all speak their language to each other, and use Portuguese to try to speak to Blackthorne or any other westerner since he’s fluent in that. I never thought about that when reading the book but technically there’d be very little English spoken so I guess the choice was to make almost all the Portuguese conversations English.
This is what I have deducted. Every time you hear English it’s actually Portuguese, except I guess when Blackthorne is speaking to his men?

This post was edited on 2/29/24 at 8:17 am
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