Thursday, November 18, 2021

Grown-up versus adult (translation tidbit)

The word 大人 can be translated as "grown-up" or "adult" in English. By itself, there isn't any real difference.

But while an adult video is a video for grown-ups, a video for grown-ups is not definitely an adult video.

Just a random tidbit I thought of sharing after seeing how some names of Japanese products just translated into English using "adult" when "grown-up" is more appropriately... especially if you don't want people to have the wrong ideas about what you are selling. 😅

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