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re: Shogun - Official Series Discussion Thread **Spoilers**
Posted on 2/29/24 at 8:15 am to PurpleandGold Motown
Posted on 2/29/24 at 8:15 am to PurpleandGold Motown
quote:The Japanese person in the village was speaking English, after the said to him “Can you speak Portuguese?”
Because he's an English linguist. He speaks all the trading languages.
quote: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?
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 post was edited on 2/29/24 at 8:17 am
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Posted on 2/29/24 at 9:16 am to lsupride87
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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?
Blackthorne was the English pilot of a Dutch ship so when he is speaking to "his" men (they weren't his men really), he would have been speaking Dutch. The show has the Europeans speak English so that the viewer is not reading subtitles the entire time. I don't think the book had English being used by anyone.
Posted on 2/29/24 at 9:28 am to lsupride87
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Every time you hear English it’s actually Portuguese
correct
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