An English note on a Korean note on a Japanese pun.

The world is a wondrous place.

Other people's balls are scary

Four years late, but I noticed a translation error so I went ahead and fixed it.

The original translation said something nonsequitur about balls. I can't read Korean, but the word in the original Japanese was 裏スジ, which is the bit of skin connected to the dick head underneath. The technical term, just to be clear, is the frenulum.

It just popped into Kyonko's head that it could get cut, and (s)he freaks out. Oh shit that could fucking hurt! I wouldn't want to hurt him like that! I wouldn't want to be hurt like that! Leading into the next page.

I think the "scary even to a girl" line doesn't mean specifically of dicks, but of the delicate tissue of both sexes' organs.

Again, since I can't read Korean, I can't comment on the translation note except to say that スジ indeed means tendon, ligament, connective tissue.

excitablepants said:

Four years late, but I noticed a translation error so I went ahead and fixed it.

The original translation said something nonsequitur about balls. I can't read Korean, but the word in the original Japanese was 裏スジ, which is the bit of skin connected to the dick head underneath. The technical term, just to be clear, is the frenulum.

It just popped into Kyonko's head that it could get cut, and (s)he freaks out. Oh shit that could fucking hurt! I wouldn't want to hurt him like that! I wouldn't want to be hurt like that! Leading into the next page.

I think the "scary even to a girl" line doesn't mean specifically of dicks, but of the delicate tissue of both sexes' organs.

Again, since I can't read Korean, I can't comment on the translation note except to say that スジ indeed means tendon, ligament, connective tissue.

Actually you've done it right. Since I can read Korean, I noticed translator himself is not good at Korean, making it even harder to translate.

Five years late. Thanks! If you noticed some inconsistencies, at the time I was new at translating and this was my best attempt at giving the correct meaning while maintaining the flow of conversation.

Translating a character's discomfort based on homonyms of two obscure words in one foreign language to another, is still pretty difficult, five years later, haha.