Arigatou!

[telophase]

Those of you who know Japanese:

I'm watching an episode of the new series of Mushishi, and after Ginko is rescued by a farmer and given a meal by the farmer's wife, he thanks her by saying what sounds to me sort of like "Arigatey" instead of the usual "Arigatou." Is this a variant, an accent, a dialect, or what?

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Re: lol seeing same post in both LJ and DW and commenting both places

[lnhammer]

I tend to get in trouble when talking about dialects, as I don't really have the background or, indeed, real knowledge (I know more Classical Japanese than Kansai-ben, for heaven's sake), but my understanding is that there is a range of pronunciations of the -ô ending, including -ee/-ei shading into an -ai sound. But it could be entirely possible those are intended as arigatai? Dunno.

(Sorry for romaji but this keyboard's not set up for kana input.)

---L.

Re: lol seeing same post in both LJ and DW and commenting both places

[solarbird]

Mmm. Interesting. Well, I'll certainly keep that in mind as a thing. Thanks!

(And no apologies needed, I can read romaji just fine. XD )