Talk:Yang Xiao Long/History/@comment-71.114.233.64-20130602023242/@comment-9090085-20130602100345

I think Chaos hit the nail on the head.

In Japan (for instance) it is comon call a girl neesan (big sister), completly ignoring blood relations. You just never notice when watching anime because it's usualy left out, or is left in japanese so it doesn't sound awkward.

In that sense, RWBY is taking an everyday artifact of speech from anime and applying it to an englsh series. Only a handfull of productions try this(Persona 4 imediatly comes to mind; while Valkyria Chronicles cheated a little with the "Welks" & "ish"), and personaly I think it's cool for Roosterteeth to take that and play it straight since almost no one does.