Domo Arigato, Mr. Darcy
Tasha sent us this, because it made her laugh; she is busy studying for finals, so we are posting it for her.
From a story about a rugby match between Bristol and Northampton (one imagines the Eltons in the grandstand on one side and the Bertrams on the other), the following rather odd sentence popped up:
It was as dull as watching pride and prejudice in Japanese.
We think that might actually be kind of fun!
May 4th, 2006 at 7:00 am
I see what they mean though - when the tighthead prop gets his ear torn off in the scrum, is a bit like Darcy emerging from Hunsford Rectory after the First Proposal. Although you wouldn’t have to see it in Japanese…
May 4th, 2006 at 10:25 am
” when the tighthead prop gets his ear torn off in the scrum …”
Yeah, that always ruins MY day.
May 4th, 2006 at 11:11 am
Speaking of P&P in Japanese, I have always imagined that P&P would make a fabulous Kabuki type play.
Darcy-San & Bingley-San, two samurai warriors just returned from battle and obliged to take a wife from amoungst the conquered village chiefs daughters.
Of course there would be much falling upon swords and bowing at the feet and naturally the Netherfield ball would be replaced with a communal bath.
Somebody really ought to do this… I am completely serious.
May 4th, 2006 at 11:43 am
Sounds like you’ve got the plot of your next fan fiction, Teresa.
I would so totally read that.
May 6th, 2006 at 12:04 am
p&p in japanese? but then we wouldn’t understand its beautiful words!
May 6th, 2006 at 7:23 am
should be fun to watch…
May 6th, 2006 at 4:07 pm
Dead but not forgotten.
Surprising the visitors who show up these days. Ah! The dreams of glory!
May 8th, 2006 at 5:06 pm
Domo Arigato, Mr. Darcy!
Good one, Mags!!!! LOL
May 8th, 2006 at 8:44 pm
Heh, or a Japanese version of Pride and Prejudice? although I don’t think that would be as successful as the Kurosawa adaptation of King Lear… there are some cultural differences that can’t be obliterated…
May 8th, 2006 at 11:04 pm
As someone who lives in Japan, I’d say this might actually just work. The Japanese culture is, in some ways, very similiar even now to the period when P&P was set ie. very restrained in public, things left unsaid etc. I’d buy a ticket to see it!
May 8th, 2006 at 11:42 pm
Meghan Belle–I have since thought that “Domo Arigato, Mr. Darcy-boto” would have been funnier. Ah well.
May 9th, 2006 at 4:50 pm
On the Nalini Singh point: the same line of thinking backs the promotion of Oscar Wilde’s social comedies of 1890s London–not to mention the “Austen wit”. More or less.
May 10th, 2006 at 1:27 am
Mr. Darcy-boto…
Mags,
Maybe, but you were still VERY funny!
We all suffer through those second thoughts. Keep bringin’ da WIT! I LOVE IT!
~Meghan (Currently, second thinking this message…)