Oh! [ of course, it wouldn't really translate — he supposes so, in any case, given how he never hears anyone else use any forms of address. ]
Ah, it really depends — strictly speaking, it means brother, but it's a way to address your friends. I mean, male friends. [ and without much of a breath in between: ] Is it the same for your culture, that to address someone by just their name is very informal? My brother used to call Xichen-ge just Xichen, but I call him either Xichen-ge or Er-ge because he is my brother's sworn brother and that makes him my brother as well... and I could call Wei-xiong Wei-gongzi, because he's a young master of the Jiang sect, except he's not of the Jiang sect anymore so I guess that's not really correct — but the Yiling Patriarch is such a [ heavy burden of a title ] pretentious name, don't you think? And when we were kids, I called him Wei-xiong, so I've just stuck to it. Technically, I should be called Nie-zongzhu, Sect Leader Nie, but that's also so much and there's no Nie sect here anyway, so who cares, right?
[ did he pause to take even one breath in all that? maybe. just one, though. ]
๏ผ he is beginning, at length, to realize why wei wuxian gets along with this man.
likely for all the same reasons itachi finds him exhaustive. all of that information is diligently filed away should he ever have use of it (a spy's prerogative, to hoard knowledge) and then: ๏ผ
Oh, ๏ผ it's said lightly, ๏ผ formality differs from person to person. Addressing someone by their name isn't inherently casual.
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Ah, it really depends — strictly speaking, it means brother, but it's a way to address your friends. I mean, male friends. [ and without much of a breath in between: ] Is it the same for your culture, that to address someone by just their name is very informal? My brother used to call Xichen-ge just Xichen, but I call him either Xichen-ge or Er-ge because he is my brother's sworn brother and that makes him my brother as well... and I could call Wei-xiong Wei-gongzi, because he's a young master of the Jiang sect, except he's not of the Jiang sect anymore so I guess that's not really correct — but the Yiling Patriarch is such a [ heavy burden of a title ] pretentious name, don't you think? And when we were kids, I called him Wei-xiong, so I've just stuck to it. Technically, I should be called Nie-zongzhu, Sect Leader Nie, but that's also so much and there's no Nie sect here anyway, so who cares, right?
[ did he pause to take even one breath in all that? maybe. just one, though. ]
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likely for all the same reasons itachi finds him exhaustive. all of that information is diligently filed away should he ever have use of it (a spy's prerogative, to hoard knowledge) and then: ๏ผ
Oh, ๏ผ it's said lightly, ๏ผ formality differs from person to person. Addressing someone by their name isn't inherently casual.
๏ผ it can also be rude! ๏ผ
Does he call you the same?
wraps this up w a nice bow
[ and they kept walking and discussing interesting things like philosophy and cultural differences! ]