Re: YnM Volume 3

[brigdh]

Viz has translated one of Tsuzuki's line as: "Oh, snap."


...that is so very, very gay that it hurts me.


And later Hisoka accuses him of playing "grab ass" with Muraki, and I laughed so hard I think I broke something.

Comments

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Oh, no worries- and it's quite likely that it's an American thing and not a British thing, so you couldn't have known it.

"Oh, snap" refers to snapping your fingers, and it's something to say after a particularly well-phrased insult. It's basically a compliment on how bitchy someone has managed to be. "Burn!" was a similar phrase in use when I was younger. It's not from any particular TV or movie (although now that I think about it, there might have been a sketch on 'In Living Color' that used it), but it most definitely carries the connotations of something only a flamingly gay man would say, like the people on 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy'. It's a subculture specific term, much like "Sista please, you best step off" would be (though for a much different subculture, obviously).

[katsue_fox]

Ah, thanks very much - that makes sense now you've explained it so clearly! OK, definite thumbs-up to Viz for their translation in this case, then!!!