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Despite being an English game the script for Deadly Premonition was originally written in Japanese. This is noticeable in a lot of text only conversations without voice acting that have a lot of typos and strange grammar. But sometimes the translations also completely recontextualize what was said!

Take this conversation in Chapter 4 on rainy nights. After seeing Thomas dance, York says “Once this case is over, we should hit a dance club in Seattle.” Thomas replies “Oh… Please, I’m not going to a dance hall.” This gives the impression that York brought up going to a casual hangout location but Thomas misinterpreted it as being invited to somewhere much more intimate.

But in the Japanese, it’s practically the opposite!

York says: 事件が解決したら シアトルのダンスホールへ招待しよう

Where "ダンスホール" does specifically mean dance hall, the kind of place one would ballroom dance. Very different from where you would go clubbing.

Thomas replies: そんな･･･ ･･･ と　とんでもありません！

Which essentially is a very confused and flustered response.

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