hi! in your last answer you said, "Each of the boys has something about them that makes translating for them either hard or easy.", so now i'm curious about what kinds of speech patterns or pronunciations you've picked up each of the boys commonly using/saying? like, speaking quickly when excited. thank you in advance :D
Hello! That’s a great question haha, and here goes another essay from us lol. They each have a very particular way of talking, whether it’s flow, words, or clauses. In order of easiest to translate to hardest, our order would be Sungyeol/Myungsoo/Sungjong, Hoya, Sunggyu, Woohyun, Dongwoo.
Sungyeol generally speaks in very short and curt sentences. He doesn’t over explain things and gets down to the point, very befitting of his personality. The only problem we encounter with him is that he says a lot of things under his breath and tends to say things while others are talking. He doesn’t need the attention to be on him, but he’ll chime in or talk to other members quietly. In general, it seems like he talks to the members more than the cameras. In general, he talks very casually and informally.
Myungsoo doesn’t talk a lot, so he’s quite easy to translate for. When he does talk, it’s never for too long and he has a very straightforward way of speaking. His voice is always pretty clear too, so we never really have issues with him at all now that I think about it lol. He tries to keep his L cosplay going, but once he’s Myungsoo, his talking does tend to speed up as well. When he’s really comfortable and L cosplay is a distant memory, Myungsoo talks pretty casually too. This is really evident in ‘Flower Bromance’.
Sungjong also doesn’t talk very lengthily. This is why we had the F line tied at the beginning. They’re more responders than leaders in talking. Sungjong has a tendency to give really good reactions. Instead of being the one to start something, he always repeats things. He doesn’t speak in long sentences and just chimes in a lot here and there, or reiterates what’s already been said. He seems like a good listener, always giving the proper reaction. However, the boys teasing him about his Korean being bad is pretty accurate. He does make a lot of grammatical mistakes lol. It’s usually when he’s flustered or talking too quickly. More than not being good at Korean, he just tends to slip up while talking a lot. That being said, he’s still relatively easy to translate for.
Hoya is also quite easy. He’s probably consistently the easiest to translate for but since the other 3 don’t talk as often, we put them slightly above Hoya for ease. Hoya always speaks slowly and in full, complete sentences. It’s a subber’s dream lol. As you guys can tell, he tends to go back to previous funny topics. If anything, the hardest part about translating Hoya are his puns and dad jokes. Sometimes they’re kind of out there or he says things that our knowledge can’t back up, so it makes us doubt whether he’s actually saying that or means something else. A prime example was when he told everyone about how his birth name was actually Hodong. No one knew if it was a joke or real until he really confirmed it later. We personally think he’s always trying to think of witty things and he’s also the type to think things through instead of just spitting it out.
Okay, so Sunggyu is really on middle grounds here. The thing about Sunggyu is that he’s a great storyteller. He really lays things out in a way that’s interesting and logical for the listener. We usually never have a problem translating everything he says, it’s just not as simple as the others. However, there are times where he talks really fast, though that doesn’t hurt anything. We can still understand everything, it’s just that we have to listen to it a few times to get every detail. He also tends to use lots of clauses, to make the story interesting. Like he’ll insert other details in the middle of saying something. There are also times where he uses bigger words. Out of all the members, Sunggyu and Dongwoo probably have the most sophisticated vocabulary. Sunggyu’s also really into catchphrases and specific sentence endings like, -뎁쇼, -ㅁ, ~ 제발요, and has lots of catchphrases like ‘I hope you become rich’ or ‘wanna get beat up’ or ‘that’s so fake’.
This is where the line between okay and difficult begins. Woohyun and Dongwoo can be kind of a headache to translate for sometimes. When Woohyun is really riled up, he really likes to chime in a lot. He also says small one-liners as he’s laughing, and with his lower tone, it makes it a little harder to understand. Namu also tends to mumble… like A LOT. We endearingly call him Nam-Mumbler sometimes. He also talks with the most slang and uses internet terms or condensed versions of phrases and such. He talks a lot in incomplete phrases and isn’t the most graceful when piecing clauses together, often saying ‘uhhh’ a lot. He usually says ‘uhh’ when he’s explaining something or talks for a long time.
Last but not least… our Dongwoo. He’s a very interesting case. There are times where he’s soooo articulate and masterful with his words. His ending ments at concerts are also very eloquent, though he flubs it up by mixing them up or something too. This is also seen when he’s rapping or when given a script. We think it’s when he’s going off with his own thoughts, that’s when it gets difficult. First of all, Dongwoo jumps around from topic to topic. I was confused just watching his v app lol. He also tends to mumble his words cause he’s just trying to get out so much at once. Dongwoo does chime in as well, with comments and lots of laughter. He starts off well and then goes all over the place on a tangent but can always tie it all in nicely at the end. It’s just hard to follow his train of thought I guess. Dongwoo also uses internet language and shortened sentences. Both Dongwoo and Woohyun are also the culprits of singing bits and pieces of old songs, which we then have to go look up and sometimes analyze the lyrics to get full comprehension of what they mean or imply. Not to mention Dongwoo’s newest catchphrase 느낌적인 느낌. It doesn’t really mean anything… and he says it quite randomly lol. He’s just… Dongwoo. Cute lovable Dongwoo ^^
We hope this helped! We hope we were detailed enough with our answers. But feel free to ask us more questions~ If only we dedicated this much time and effort on our real lives, we’d be going places lol
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