Omg thank GOD someone else noticed it, I thought my obsession was going too far xD Which it still is but that is not the point here
Something to point out is that not only his language became more “childish” to call it somehow though repetition, but is that is made on purpose.
Can I go off for a little here? Is time to use what little I learned of the language career in something important! Language changes and evolve over time, that is obvious, we learn new ways of expressing ourselves and letting our message across, we also gain new gestures and expressions depending of the phrases we say, catchphrases, the way we slurs the words, how some people get talk quicker under certain circumstances (Anger or Fear mostly) and all that kind of stuff we develop over time, the way we talk and express is part of our subconscious, is REALLY hard to change our way of expression because.....well that is how the brain works, if you had for years moved your hand when you speak do you think you will stop once you realized it? Is like breathing, when you notice you are doing it you do it “manually” to call it somehow, but most of the time is automatic.
With that say......Meliodas speaks like a child because he wants to. You see, there are various “type” of japanese to call it somehow, Formal and Informal, until there all ok, like any language, BUT there also exists....what my friend call “Vulgar Japanese” and “Superformal Japanese”, the two sides of the same coin.
“Superformal Japanese” is pretty much oldish japanese, err....picture the english that the XV century used, is pretty much that. Some of the Holy War Era characters(Like Zeldris for example, why do you think he doesn’t say “Aniki” but it’s even more formal counterpart that I don’t know to write so I won’t bother) Or our Elizabeth, since she is princess, uses it. (However I am no sure if is formal or superformal what she uses....eh, pretty sure is not informal) As you might guess, Ten Commandment/Assault Mode!Meliodas talks like this.
Now “Vulgar Japenese”......is pretty much how most shonen/shojo/kodomo characters talk xD (unlike they have a rich background or something) is pretty much speaking half and half, big ass sentences reduced to two words at most, is just easier.......and mostly how kids or young teens talk.
Or in this case, how a little bastard that don’t want anything to do with his royal background talk. Oh yeah, remember all that I said above about how our language evolve over time until is marked into our subconscious? Well screw it cause Meliodas talks like that on purpose, he can use his big words when he wants to, as show when he gets serious or downright demonic.....just like his tone gets more high pitched when he is his normal......er.....cheerful? self so does the vocabulary, TC!Mel is all “I will make you disappear of this world you lowly, inferior being” like being too good for this world while regular Mel is all “Yo whatssup, want to vibe? my place at 2am? k” But is not because his language had deformed over time but because the second one is waaaaay more welcoming that the first one, the first one can be seen.....kind of cold and distant.
Also the fact that he repeats and slurs stuff to look more friendly and cute so much that his old friends still remember it after all this time is so blessed and cute aghaghag
In order words.....he talks like royalty to look menacing, he talks like a child to look friendly and fun to hang up, like there is not in between, he is either a regal killer machine or your little nephew asking if your phone has games, he is great.
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